title: The communicative functions of final rises in Finnish intonation.
abstract: This paper considers the communicative function of final rises in Finnish conversational talk between pairs of teenage girls. Final rises are fairly common, occurring approximately twice a minute, predominantly on declaratives and in narrative sequences. We briefly consider the interplay between voice quality (known to be a marker of transition relevance) and rising intonation in Finnish. We argue that in narrative sequences, rising terminals manage two main interactional tasks: they provide a place for a coparticipant to mark recipiency, and they project more talk by the current speaker. Using a methodology which combines phonetic observation with conversation analysis, we demonstrate participants' orientation to these functions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, UK. rao1@york.ac.uk
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ogden
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Routarinne
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014705:Verbal Behavior