The linguistics of laughter: A corpus-assisted study of laughter-talk

The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-262

  Partington, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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