34.675, Books: Speaking of causality: Hu

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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:09:09
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Speaking of causality: Hu

 


Title: Speaking of causality 
Subtitle: On the role of prosody in communicating subjective and objective causality
in discourse 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2023 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/speaking-of-causality 


Author: Na Hu

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934223 Pages: 253 Price: Europe EURO 36


Abstract:

Human mind distinguishes between different types of causal relations, such as
those that can be directly observed from the physical world (e.g., “My
daughter had a fight with her best friend, so she cried”), and those that are
constructed by people in the mental world (e.g., “My daughter cried, so maybe
she had a fight with her best friend”). Previous research has shown that
coherence markers, such as specialized causal connectives (e.g., want
‘because’ and omdat ‘because’ in Dutch), can help people determine the type of
causality the speaker intends to express (subjective vs. objective). This
dissertation focuses on the role of prosody—changes in pitch, loudness, or
timing—in communicating different types of causality.

This dissertation explores this issue in two steps. First, using a dialogue
task, this dissertation examines the use of prosody in expressing the two
different types of causality. The results show that there is a trade-off
between the use of prosody and the use of specialized causal connectives in
expressing subjective and objective causal relations. Based on this finding,
this dissertation proceeds to examine the effect of prosodic information on
the construction of causality. The results obtained from a discourse
completion task show that the prosody features of the connective so affect
listeners’ expectation of the causality in the upcoming context.

This dissertation provides new insights into how different types of causality
are communicated in speech communication by showing that not only the lexical
information but also the prosodic information plays a role.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics


Written In: English  (eng)

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