John Local
Biographic Data
| ID | 134168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Local |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Local |
| SIGNATURE | LOCAL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 262 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
In Memoriam John Kelly (1936–2023)
He was born in Davyhulme, a small town on the outskirts of Manchester on 23 August 1936.He was proud of his Northern roots.One of the first academic articles he published was based on the dialect of his home town, as was one of his last academic conference presentations, in 2000 in Sankelmark Germany, where he returned to the same subject.John read French and German at the University of Manchester and graduated in 1959 with a First Class Honours …
How phonetic features project more talk
Investigations into the management of turn-taking have typically focussed on pitch and other prosodic phenomena, particularly pitch-accents. Here, non-pitch phonetic features and their role in turn-taking are described. Through sustained phonetic and interactional analysis of a naturally occurring, 12-minute long telephone call between two adult speakers of British English, sets of talk-projecting and turn-projecting features are identified. Talk…
Responding indirectly
Stance and affect in conversation
Linguists, and other analysts of discourse, regularly make appeal to affectual states in determining the meaning of utterances. We examine two kinds of sequence that occur in everyday conversation. The first involves one participant making an explicit lexical formulation of a co-participant's affectual state (e.g., ‘you sound happy’, ‘don't sound so depressed’). The second involves responses to ‘positive informings’ and ‘negative informings’. Thr…
F2 variation in Newcastle and Leeds English liquid systems
In this paper we present a production study designed to explore the relationship between three observations which have previously been made about liquids in British English: first, that laterals have prosodically-determined ‘clear’ (syllable-initial) and ‘dark’ (syllable-final) variants; second, that some varieties of English have either clear [1] in all positions or dark [l] in all positions; third, that some varieties with clear [1] have dark […
Repetition and the prosody-pragmatics interface
Abrupt-joins as a resource for the production of multi-unit, multi-action turns
Some auditory and acoustic observations on the phonetics of [ATR] harmony in a speaker of a dialect of Kalenjin
Conventional treatments of vowel harmony processes routinely make two important assumptions: first, only vowels are implicated in the harmonic process and second, the phonologically relevant harmony features have a transparent (intrinsic) phonetic interpretation (IPI). Consonants are typically treated only insofar as they interfere with such harmony (van der Hulst & van der Weijer 1995 provide a concise overview of harmony processes and their int…
Variable domains and variable relevance
Conversational phonetics
Introduction Phonological theory is in a mess. The mess is of two kinds – the ‘theory’ isn't really theory, and there is an almost total lack of genuine interest in relating the so-called phonological analysis to a serious and sensible phonetics. These days phonology often seems to be more concerned with pictures on paper (pick up any book on autosegmental or metrical phonology) and specious universality than with the abstraction of categories fr…
Projection and ?silences
Val Jones-Sargent
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How many vowels in a vowel
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Turn-competitive incomings
M. A. K. Halliday. Learning How to Mean
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Turn-competitive incomings
Abrupt-joins as a resource for the production of multi-unit, multi-action turns
Projection and ?silences
Repetition and the prosody-pragmatics interface
Variable domains and variable relevance
Responding indirectly
How phonetic features project more talk
Investigations into the management of turn-taking have typically focussed on pitch and other prosodic phenomena, particularly pitch-accents. Here, non-pitch phonetic features and their role in turn-taking are described. Through sustained phonetic and interactional analysis of a naturally occurring, 12-minute long telephone call between two adult speakers of British English, sets of talk-projecting and turn-projecting features are identified. Talk…
F2 variation in Newcastle and Leeds English liquid systems
In this paper we present a production study designed to explore the relationship between three observations which have previously been made about liquids in British English: first, that laterals have prosodically-determined ‘clear’ (syllable-initial) and ‘dark’ (syllable-final) variants; second, that some varieties of English have either clear [1] in all positions or dark [l] in all positions; third, that some varieties with clear [1] have dark […
Some auditory and acoustic observations on the phonetics of [ATR] harmony in a speaker of a dialect of Kalenjin
Conventional treatments of vowel harmony processes routinely make two important assumptions: first, only vowels are implicated in the harmonic process and second, the phonologically relevant harmony features have a transparent (intrinsic) phonetic interpretation (IPI). Consonants are typically treated only insofar as they interfere with such harmony (van der Hulst & van der Weijer 1995 provide a concise overview of harmony processes and their int…
M. A. K. Halliday. Learning How to Mean
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How many vowels in a vowel
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Turn-competitive incomings
Val Jones-Sargent
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Projection and ?silences
Conversational phonetics
Introduction Phonological theory is in a mess. The mess is of two kinds – the ‘theory’ isn't really theory, and there is an almost total lack of genuine interest in relating the so-called phonological analysis to a serious and sensible phonetics. These days phonology often seems to be more concerned with pictures on paper (pick up any book on autosegmental or metrical phonology) and specious universality than with the abstraction of categories fr…
Variable domains and variable relevance
Abrupt-joins as a resource for the production of multi-unit, multi-action turns
Some auditory and acoustic observations on the phonetics of [ATR] harmony in a speaker of a dialect of Kalenjin
Conventional treatments of vowel harmony processes routinely make two important assumptions: first, only vowels are implicated in the harmonic process and second, the phonologically relevant harmony features have a transparent (intrinsic) phonetic interpretation (IPI). Consonants are typically treated only insofar as they interfere with such harmony (van der Hulst & van der Weijer 1995 provide a concise overview of harmony processes and their int…
Repetition and the prosody-pragmatics interface
F2 variation in Newcastle and Leeds English liquid systems
In this paper we present a production study designed to explore the relationship between three observations which have previously been made about liquids in British English: first, that laterals have prosodically-determined ‘clear’ (syllable-initial) and ‘dark’ (syllable-final) variants; second, that some varieties of English have either clear [1] in all positions or dark [l] in all positions; third, that some varieties with clear [1] have dark […
Stance and affect in conversation
Linguists, and other analysts of discourse, regularly make appeal to affectual states in determining the meaning of utterances. We examine two kinds of sequence that occur in everyday conversation. The first involves one participant making an explicit lexical formulation of a co-participant's affectual state (e.g., ‘you sound happy’, ‘don't sound so depressed’). The second involves responses to ‘positive informings’ and ‘negative informings’. Thr…
Responding indirectly
How phonetic features project more talk
Investigations into the management of turn-taking have typically focussed on pitch and other prosodic phenomena, particularly pitch-accents. Here, non-pitch phonetic features and their role in turn-taking are described. Through sustained phonetic and interactional analysis of a naturally occurring, 12-minute long telephone call between two adult speakers of British English, sets of talk-projecting and turn-projecting features are identified. Talk…
In Memoriam John Kelly (1936–2023)
He was born in Davyhulme, a small town on the outskirts of Manchester on 23 August 1936.He was proud of his Northern roots.One of the first academic articles he published was based on the dialect of his home town, as was one of his last academic conference presentations, in 2000 in Sankelmark Germany, where he returned to the same subject.John read French and German at the University of Manchester and graduated in 1959 with a First Class Honours …
Linguistics (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Communication (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Communication (5 works)