[Lingtyp] High pitch in direct quotative speech

[stef.spronck at helsinki.fi]

Hi Clemens,
 
That sounds fascinating, would be very interested to see your examples!
 
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.
 
Best,
Stef

> On 06/02/2025 15:49 CET Clemens Mayer via Lingtyp <lingtyp at 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. 
> 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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