[Lingtyp] High pitch in direct quotative speech

[Martine Vanhove]

Hi Clemens

Although falsetto pitch is not necessarily involved, uou may be 
interested in the following papers which deal with the relationship 
between (direct) reported speech and prosody (some of which you probably 
already know)

Genetti, Carol. 2011.  Direct speech reports and the cline of prosodic 
integration in Dolakha Newar. /Himalayan Linguistics. Special issue in 
memory of Michael Noonan and David Watters/10 (1)://55-71.

Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth. 1999. Coherent voicing: On prosody in 
conversational reported speech. In: /Coherence in spoken and written 
discourse: how to create it and how to describe it/. [Pragmatics & 
Beyond New Series <http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns>63], 
Bublitz, Wolfram, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola (eds). pp. 11-32. Amsterdam: 
John Benjamins.

Jansen, Wouter, Michelle L. Gregory and Jason M. Brenier.2001. Prosodic 
correlates of directly reported speech: Evidence from conversational 
speech. Unpublished paper. Available on line at http://www.kuvik.net/ 
wjansen/research/isca.pdf

Klewitz, Gabriele and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen. 1999. Quote-unquote? The 
role of prosody in the contextualization of reported speech sequences, 
/Pragmatics/, 9 (4): 459-485.

Malibert, Il-Il & Vanhove, Martine. 2015. Quotative constructions and 
prosody in some Afroasiatic languages: Towards a typology. In: 
/Corpus-based Studies of lesser-described Languages: the CorpAfroAs 
Corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic/. Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove & 
Dominique Caubet (eds.). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins 
(Studies in Corpus Linguistics 68), 117-169. ⟨halshs-00853936⟩

There was also an ERC project on discourse reporting lead by Tanya 
Nikitina where you may find relevant infrmation 
(https://discoursereporting.huma-num.fr/)

Best

Martine

Le 06/02/2025 à 16:07, Stef via Lingtyp a écrit :
> 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:
>> Hi folks,
>> 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.
>> Thanks!
>> - Clemens
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