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Intonation units have been notoriously difficult to identify in natural talk. Problems include fuzzy boundaries, lack of exhaustivity, and the potential circularity involved when studying their interface with other language-organizational dimensions. This volume advocates a way to resolve such problems: the 'cesura' approach. Cesuras, or breaks in the flow of talk, are created by discontinuities in the prosodic-phonetic parameters of speech that cluster to various extents at certain points in time. Using conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic methodology, the volume identifies the parameters creating cesuras in talk-in-interaction and proposes ways to notate them depending on the researcher's goal. It also offers a way to study the role of cesuras at the prosody-syntax interface non-circularly, which leads to new insights concerning language variation and change. The volume will thus be of major import to anyone working with natural spoken language, its chunks, its various dimensions, and its variation and change.

Intonation (Phonetics) --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology --- Phonology --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Multidimensional phonology --- Polysystemic phonology --- Prosodic phonology --- Speaking styles --- Phonetics --- Pitch (Phonetics) --- Tone (Phonetics) --- Oral interpretation --- Phonology. --- Philosophy --- Intonation --- Gesprochene Sprache. --- Intonation (Phonetics). --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics). --- Prosodie. --- Speech acts (Linguistics). --- Sprechpause.

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Intonation (Phonetics) --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phonology.

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Despite a vocabulary that consists of only three words Yes, No and And, Chil acts as a powerful speaker in conversation. He does this, embedding his limited lexicon within larger contextual configurations in which different kinds of meaning making processes including prosody, gesture, sequential organization, and operations on his talk by his interlocutors create a whole that goes beyond any of its constitutive parts. This paper explores the role played by prosody in this process. It focuses on how Chil is able to build varied action that is precisely fitted to its local environment by using d

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phonology --- Multidimensional phonology --- Polysystemic phonology --- Prosodic phonology --- Speaking styles --- Linguistics --- Phonetics --- Phonology. --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology