In grammar books, the various functions of "and" as phrasal coordinator and clausal conjunction are treated as standard knowledge. In addition, studies on the uses of "and" in everyday talk-in-interaction have described its discourse-organizational functions on a more global level. In the phonetic literature, in turn, a range of phonetic forms of "and" have been listed. Yet, so far few studies have related the phonetic features of "and" to its function. This contribution surveys a range of phonetic forms of "and" in a corpus of private American English telephone conversations. It shows that the use of forms such as [[ash]nd], [[epsilon]n], or [[schwa]n], among others, is not random but, in essence, correlates with the syntactic-pragmatic scope of "and" and the cognitive closeness of the items the and connects. This, in turn, allows the phonetic design of "and" to contribute to the organization of turn-taking. The findings presented are based on conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic methodology, which includes quantitative analyses. (Contains 3 figures, 1 table and 4 notes.)