@article{oai:niigata-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00027382, author = {O’Neal, George}, journal = {新潟大学言語文化研究, 新潟大学言語文化研究}, month = {Jul}, note = {Both Halliday and Schegloff claim that pitch accents have certain functions : Halliday claims that pitch accents collocate with new information in conversations;Schegloff claims that pitch accents signal imminent turn change. The intonationand pitch-accents that appeared in the first three minutes of one recorded naturalEnglish conversation were examined, and correlations to the behavior of pitchaccents predicted by the two theories were tabulated in order to determine whichtheory better reflects the praxis of natural English conversation. It was discoveredthat both theories make reasonably accurate predictiBoth Halliday and Schegloff claim that pitch accents have certain functions : Halliday claims that pitch accents collocate with new information in conversations ; Schegloff claims that pitch accents signal imminent turn change. The intonation and pitch-accents that appeared in the first three minutes of one recorded natural English conversation were examined, and correlations to the behavior of pitch accents predicted by the two theories were tabulated in order to determine which theory better reflects the praxis of natural English conversation. It was discovered that both theories make reasonably accurate predictions of the behavior of intonation in conversational praxis: 55% of the pitch accents collocated with content words that represented new information, confirming to a degree Halliday's theory of pitch accent placement, although by no means categorically; on the other hand,55% of the turn changes in the data occurred on a point of syntactic completion with a pitch accent on it or near it, confirming to a degree Schegloff's hypothesis of pitch accent placement, although this is also not a categorical characteristic of turn change.is also not a categorical characteristic of turnchange.}, pages = {1--29}, title = {Two Sides of the Same Coin : An Examination of Hallidayan and Schegloffian Accounts of Pitch Accent in Natural English Conversation}, volume = {17}, year = {2012} }