The intonation of the Icelandic other-initiated repair expressions Ha ‘Huh’ and Hvað segirðu/Hvað sagðirðu ‘What do/did you say’

Dehé, Nicole

The intonation of the Icelandic other-initiated repair expressions Ha ‘Huh’ and Hvað segirðu/Hvað sagðirðu ‘What do/did you say’

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2015

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 2015, 38(2), pp. 189-219. ISSN 0332-5865. eISSN 1502-4717. Available under: doi: 10.1017/S0332586515000153

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It has been shown in the literature that cross-linguistically, the other-initiated repair element ‘huh’ is typically realised with rising intonation. Icelandic has exceptional status in this respect in that it has falling intonation with Ha [haː] ‘huh’. The literature claims that it is language-specific interrogative prosody that accounts for this exceptional status of Icelandic. More specifically, it argues that falling intonation is the default for questions in Icelandic and that the other-initiated repair interjection shares its intonational features with interrogatives. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, using map-task data, it confirms previous results for the intonation of Icelandic Ha, and in addition shows that its more complex relative Hvað segirðu/Hvað sagðirðu ‘What do/did you say?’ is realised with falling intonation as well. Both expressions are realised with an H^∗ pitch accent followed by downward pitch movement to L%. Secondly, the paper argues, for a number of reasons, against the assumption that question prosody is enough to account for the Icelandic pattern, and it suggests instead that Ha and Hvað segirðu/Hvað sagðirðu are in fact not specifically marked in intonation, but are realised with a combination of pitch accent and boundary tone found across utterance types in Icelandic.

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400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik

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Icelandic, interrogative prosody, intonation, other-initiated repair expressions, question prosody, repair

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DEHÉ, Nicole, 2015. The intonation of the Icelandic other-initiated repair expressions Ha ‘Huh’ and Hvað segirðu/Hvað sagðirðu ‘What do/did you say’. In: Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 2015, 38(2), pp. 189-219. ISSN 0332-5865. eISSN 1502-4717. Available under: doi: 10.1017/S0332586515000153

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  year={2015},
  doi={10.1017/S0332586515000153},
  title={The intonation of the Icelandic other-initiated repair expressions Ha ‘Huh’ and Hvað segirðu/Hvað sagðirðu ‘What do/did you say’},
  number={2},
  volume={38},
  issn={0332-5865},
  journal={Nordic Journal of Linguistics},
  pages={189--219},
  author={Dehé, Nicole}
}

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