2021/03/01 by Elizabeth Couper‐Kuhlen · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Prosody #Phonetics #Linguistics #Psychology #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1075/slsi.34.05cou
openalex publication_date 2021/03/01 · openalex created_date 2021/03/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract This chapter is devoted to a study of the prosodic and phonetic realization of the particle OKAY as deployed in American English mundane conversation. Its primary aim is to explore the question of whether there are recurrent prosodic-phonetic formats associated with positionally distinct uses of OKAY. The data come from telephone and face-to-face interactions between family and friends spanning a period from the 1960s to the present. Currently there are approximately 200 tokens in the collection. The older and more recent data sets are considered separately in order to capture changes that have ensued over the last fifty to sixty years.