%0 eBook %E Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth. %E Ford, Cecilia E. %I J. Benjamins Pub. Co. %D 2004 %C Amsterdam ; Philadelphia %G English %B Typological studies in language ; %@ 9789027294999 %@ 9027294992 %@ 0167-7373 ; %T Sound patterns in interaction : cross-linguistic studies from conversation %U http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=253184 %X This collection of original papers by eminent phoneticians, linguists and sociologists offers the most recent findings on phonetic design in interactional discourse available in an edited collection. The chapters examine the organization of phonetic detail in relation to social actions in talk-in-interaction based on data drawn from diverse languages: Japanese, English, Finnish, and German, as well as from diverse speakers: children, fluent adults and adults with language loss. Because similar methodology is deployed for the investigation of similar conversational tasks in different languages.