Bringing conversations to a close: The management of closings in interactions between AAC users and 'natural' speakers

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 467-493

  Collins, Sarah ^a   Marková, Ivana ^a   Murphy, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative and augmentative communication; Closings; Interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TECHNIQUE; VIDEORECORDER;

EID: 0030682148     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699209708985208     Document Type: Article

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