![]() ![]() In addition to identifying various linguistic candidates for use as modular pivots, this article reports the results of auditory and acoustic analysis of three such candidates (now, I guess, and you know) revealing the intonational and articulatory seamlessness of the pivot’s junctures with prior and subsequent talk. Modular pivots are comprised of items of talk that (a) are linguistic adjuncts and hence syntactically optional, (b) routinely appear in both turn-initial and turn-final positions, and (c) are deployed to forge an overlapping or pivotal transition between otherwise discrete TCUs. ![]() This article investigates a type of turn constructional pivot structurally different from and more common than those previously analyzed within the literature. ![]()
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