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This paper investigates how speakers of English can use the prosodic design utterances to identity parts these as instances reported speech. We will show that changes function like quotation marks in written texts by clearly delimiting left and right hand boundaries sequence. In majority cases, however, do not coincide with speech but occur nearby, functioning a 'frame' for interpretation seque...

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