[Jenling] JenLing-Kolloq June 15, 18-20: Beatrice Szczepek Reed

[Pia Bergmann]

Dear Jena Linguists,

we cordially invite you to the JenLing-Kolloquium on Wednesday, June  
15 from 18-20h (c.t.).

Beatrice Szczepek Reed (King's College London) will give a talk on:
"Glottalization vs. word linking as conversational resources: evidence  
from German and English"

Abstract
The presentation explores the role of glottalization vs. wordlinking  
in the production of multi-unit turns. The data show that speakers of  
German,English and French use the distinction between the two patterns  
as a phoneticresource for managing the interactional distinction  
between continuing a socialaction and starting a new one. In German,  
glottalization of vowel-initiated turnconstructional units (TCUs) has  
been found to co-occur at high frequency withthe initiation of new  
social actions, as in the case of an assessment followedby a new  
enquiry. In contrast,vowel-initial TCUs that are linked directly to  
the end of a preceding TCU typicallyco-occur with a continuation of an  
in-progress action, as in the instance of apolar question being  
continued as an alternative question, making the two aunified enquiry.  
This phenomenon has also been shown for French in the context  
ofconfirmation sequences. The present study expands the analysis to  
BritishEnglish, where the data show a similar distribution of  
patterns. Thetypological differences that exist with regard to the  
glottalization/ linkingcontrast make it a fruitful environment in  
which to ask whether certain soundcontrasts lend themselves to the  
cueing of particular social actions cross-linguistically.In German  
phonology, glottalization of word-initial vowels is considered  
thenorm, whereas in French and English liaison is expected at C_V word  
boundaries.However, if natural talk in all three languages shows  
connections betweenglottalization and the start of new actions on the  
one hand, and linking andaction continuation on the other, this could  
be evidence that sound patternsare not solely determined by  
language-specific phonologies but are also crosslinguisticresources  
for managing interaction.

The talk will take place in the 'Seminarraum' in Fürstengraben 30, 1st floor.

You can also join us online via Zoom:
Thema: JenLing-Kolloqium

Zoom-Meeting beitreten
https://uni-jena-de.zoom.us/j/64261356249

Meeting-ID: 642 6135 6249
Kenncode: 058613

Best wishes
Pia (Bergmann)


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Professor Dr. Pia Bergmann
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Fürstengraben 30
07743 Jena
Tel.: 03641-944314
Büro: EG, R 004