[Lingtyp] High pitch in direct quotative speech

[Kees Hengeveld]

Dear Clemens,

The phenomenon is also present in A'ingae, a language isolate spoken in Colombia and Ecuador. A presentation by Sanker et al. describes the phenomenon. You can find it here: https://research.clps.brown.edu/anderbois/Handouts/SSLA_SSLA3_Slides.pdf.

Best, Kees Hengeveld


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Van: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> namens Stef via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Verzonden: donderdag, februari 6, 2025 4:10 PM
Aan: Clemens Mayer <cjmayer at hawaii.edu>; Clemens Mayer via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Onderwerp: Re: [Lingtyp] High pitch in direct quotative speech

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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