| Title: | Yielding or Maintaining the Floor: The Role of Intonational Morphemes in the Turn-taking System in Montenegrin |
| Author: | Sandra Vukasojević |
| Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LXII (1), p. 39-58 |
| p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
| Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to determine the occurence and role of the intonational morphemes in the turn-taking system in Montenegrin. The focus is on the function of boundary tones in helping the interlocutors project a possible completion point and on their potential interaction with other linguistic components in that respect. The basic assumption is that the interlocutors follow not only the syntactic signals, but also the intonational ones while taking turns and successfully organizing the conversation. The empirical study, which involves the analysis of Montenegrin TV talk shows, points to the low boundary tone L% as the cue most frequently used in signaling transition relevance place. However, the high boundary tone H% was registered as well, although sometimes at points where it was unexpected. |
| Key words: | Turn-taking system, boundary tones, TV talk shows, F0 variations |
| Language: | English |
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