Constructing a context with intonation
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Jill House is a senior lecturer in phonetics at UCL, where she teaches on linguistics, phonetics, English language, and speech and language therapy programmes. Her research interests have centred on prosody, exploring both the formal properties of f0 contours, including their alignment to text, and their function in discourse. She has worked on designing and implementing intonation models for text-to-speech synthesis in dialogue applications (JSRU; Infovox/SUNDIAL), and on the use of synthesis
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Line divisions as stylistic devices in poetry: Relevance, procedural encoding and ad hoc concepts
2022, Journal of PragmaticsCitation Excerpt :Although in many written texts (both literary and non-literary alike) the visuospatial presentation of their linguistically encoded elements is seen as arbitrary rather than motivated, the present article argues that the use of line divisions in non-metrical free verse poetry can affect the manner in which the linguistically encoded material of such poetry is processed in a wider cognitive-pragmatic sense. With this idea in mind, the article uses key insights from the literature on relevance theory and procedural encoding (House, 1990, 2006; Blakemore, 2004; Wilson, 2012, 2016; Sasamoto, 2014; Carston, 2016b; Jackson, 2016; Scott and Jackson, 2020), in order to argue that line divisions (when employed and interpreted within non-metrical free verse poetry) can potentially function as devices which guide inferential processing towards particular elements of the text's linguistically encoded material, thus characterising such features as procedural-like in nature. Furthermore, the article posits that the procedural-like qualities of line divisions may lead to the derivation of arrays of additional cognitive effects, and that the conceptual material relating to these effects may affect how elements of the text's lexically encoded content are narrowed and/or broadened, and thus the nature of the ad hoc concepts which they ultimately become.
Gestural codas pave the way to the understanding of verbal irony
2015, Journal of PragmaticsCitation Excerpt :The complex nature of the phenomenon seems to indicate that speakers can signal the presence of verbal irony by combining and contrasting a variety of prosodic marks, this is, that “because of the inextricable relations between intentions and emotional tones of voice”, prosodic signals specifically employed to highlight (i.e. to make ‘relevant’) an ironic remark overlap with the affective prosody embedded in the ironic utterances (Bryant, 2010:546). Within Relevance Theory, researchers have proposed that prosodic modulations encode procedural instructions that guide the inferential process by constraining the range of possible interpretations (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/1995; House, 1990, 2006; Clark and Lyndsey, 1990; Fretheim, 2002; Wilson and Wharton, 2006; Escandell-Vidal, 1998, 2011a,b; Prieto et al., 2013, among others). In the case of irony, prosodic signals have been proposed to serve as guidance to help a listener understand a speaker's critical or ironic attitude with respect to the proposition expressed.
Disambiguating the scope of negation by prosodic cues in three varieties of german
2013, LinguaCitation Excerpt :This utterance allows both for a wide scope reading according to which William drinks, but not because he is unhappy, and for a narrow scope reading in which William does not drink, the reason being his unhappiness (Hirschberg and Avesani, 2000:88). The main finding of the study is that English as well as Italian speakers disambiguate scope of negation not only by the choice of utterance-final boundary tone, but also, and in fact primarily, by intra-sentential phrasing (see also House, 2006:1549). The same strategy has been found for Spanish speakers by Avesani et al. (1995).
Sociophonetics and intonation: A proposal for socioprosodics
2023, The Routledge Handbook of SociophoneticsRelevance and multimodal prosody: implications for L2 teaching and learning
2023, Frontiers in Communication
Jill House is a senior lecturer in phonetics at UCL, where she teaches on linguistics, phonetics, English language, and speech and language therapy programmes. Her research interests have centred on prosody, exploring both the formal properties of f0 contours, including their alignment to text, and their function in discourse. She has worked on designing and implementing intonation models for text-to-speech synthesis in dialogue applications (JSRU; Infovox/SUNDIAL), and on the use of synthesis to test the naturalness of a prosodically based model (ProSynth). Current work includes the investigation of the intonation of ‘social rituals’ in naturally occurring speech.