ABSTRACT
The natural home of spoken language is ‘talk-in-interaction.’ However, despite an upsurge in interest in ‘connected speech’ in recent years, we still know surprisingly little in detail about the ways in which ordinary people use the phonetic resources of language in everyday talk to undertake interactional tasks (e.g., handling turn-tran-
sition and entry to and exit from talk; configuring their talk as a continuation of some prior, abandoned talk or as a new departure; showing that they are now correcting some trouble in prior talk; signalling that they are willing to yield a turn-at-talk, treating some talk, which overlaps their own, as interruptive but other overlapping talk as supportive).
