A study of backchannels in regional varieties of English, using corpus mark-up as the means of identification

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 479-509

  Wong, Deanna ^a   Peters, Pam ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Backchannels; Corpus mark up; International Corpus of English; Listening behaviour; Regional variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249156267     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.12.4.03won     Document Type: Article

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