<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Hi Jocelyn,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'd be<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>also interested by any report or examples from corpus of direct speech<br>
that cannot be identified using morphological or syntactical clues.<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">If I understand this correctly, you would be interested in cases where prosodic cues alone identify direct reported speech? If this is the case, I have cases in a naturally occurring multiparty conversation in Italian where speakers simply modify their voice to embody the person they are reporting. Because they are embodying English speakers, sometimes they code-switch for their quote. In this case, I think that the mere code-switching tips the other participants on the fact that the material being produced is in fact a quote.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">For example, here one of the speakers is complaining about what she defined "the type of men" she finds on dating apps in California:<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">L: Ma a loro,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"> <i>but they,</i></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"> a loro piace 'ste cose qui,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"> <i>they like this kind of things,</i></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">S: a loro piace,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"> <i>they like,</i></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"> <V Outdoor,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"> I like outdoor >,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div>L: I like outdoor, </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"> </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"> ma a me no?</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"> <i>but I don't?</i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">S modifies her voice noticeably in producing the material in English; L does not. I think in the first case, you could tell S is reporting an hypothetical quote based on prosody, in the second case, I think switching to English is enough for the rest of the interlocutors to understand that this is not her own speech. <br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">If these are the cases that interest you, I might have some more in Italian, Western Lombard, and Kazakh.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">Best,<br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Giorgia Troiani (she/they)</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2">PhD Candidate, Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara<br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2">Graduate Research
Assistant for the Multimodal Corpus of Spoken Kazakh Language, School of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Nazarbayev University</font></span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2"></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2">Visiting scholar, English Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid<br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2"><a href="https://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/giorgia-troiani" target="_blank">Website</a><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2"><a href="http://ucsb.zoom.us/my/giorgiatroiani" target="_blank">Zoom room</a><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>