Folk notions of um and uh, you know, and like

Text and Talk

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 297-314

  Tree, Jean E Fox ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse markers; Fillers; Like; Meaning; Spontaneous speech; You know

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249948685     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2007.012     Document Type: Review

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