Speech rhythm across turn transitions in cross-cultural talk-in-interaction

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1037-1059

  Szczepek Reed, Beatrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; English as a lingua franca; Intercultural communication; Prosody; Speech rhythm; Turn taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349108795     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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