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Hi Clemens,
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That sounds fascinating, would be very interested to see your examples!
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It's, of course, quite common to have a pitch reset at the beginning of a quote, but for very few languages it has been claimed that these are obligatory (a lot of the time, even for languages where prosody plays a role in marking reported speech, it has pragmatic functions), let alone that it involves a prosodic marking feature of the kind you describe.
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Best,
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Stef
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On 06/02/2025 15:49 CET Clemens Mayer via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:
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Hi folks,
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I'm a PhD candidate at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, working with Woleaian (Oceanic-Micronesian). I've found a particular prosodical phenomenon wherein direct quotative speech is always paired with high falsetto pitch. This occurs regardless of speaker's and quoted person's gender, and occurs across speech genres.
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I was wondering whether any of you have seen this (type of) prosodic cue as part of quotative speech. Of course happy to provide more detailed data on request.
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Thanks!
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- Clemens
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<span style="font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 10pt;">Dr. Stef Spronck,</span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: terminal, monaco;">Lecturer in Language & communication at Utrecht University, </span>
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<span style="font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 10pt;">Research affiliate in Indigenous studies and General linguistics at the University of Helsinki,</span>
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