Linguistics
Subject: Prosody in Hebrew and English spoken discourse
Supervisor: Michal Marmorstein, Elisha Moses, Dagmar Barth-Weingarten
Abstract: My PhD research aims at deconstructing the well-known notion of “Question Prosody” – a final rising tone – into a set of different question-type prosodies, each carrying a unique interactional meaning and mobilizes a different type of response in natural conversation.
Bio: Nadav Matalon is a PhD student in the Linguistics Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a B.Mus. from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and a M.A. (magna cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Nadav is interested in the nature of the prosodic sign - what are its pertinent acoustic building blocks, and what meanings does it carry in human communication.
Publications:
Matalon, N. (2021).The Camel Humps prosodic pattern: Listing for disaffiliating in spoken Hebrew. In Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, C., Fiorentini, I. & Goria, E. (eds), 155-186. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Marmorstein, M. & Matalon, N. (2021). Responses within activities: Alignment via Egyptian Arabic ?ah ‘yeah’ in extended turns. Interactional Linguistics.
Biron, T., Baum, D., Freche, D., Matalon, N., Ehrmann, N., Weinreb, E., ... & Moses, E. (2021). Automatic detection of prosodic boundaries in spontaneous speech. Plos one, 16(5), e0250969.
Presidential Stipend 2019/20