Bill Wells
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bill Wells plays a role.
Articles
2010 Tonal repetition and tonal contrast in English carer-child interaction Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 243–262 | Article
Research has so far failed to demonstrate how, or even that, young children progressively acquire a set of tones or pitch accents that have distinct meanings or functions. From recent work in the phonetics of conversation, there is some evidence that a speaker’s choice of tone can be accounted for… read more
2004 Prosodic resources, turn-taking and overlap in children's talk-in-interaction Sound Patterns in Interaction: Cross-linguistic studies from conversation, Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Cecilia E. Ford (eds.), pp. 119–144 | Article
2001 Interactional Linguistics and language development: A conversation analytic perspective on emergent syntax Studies in Interactional Linguistics, Selting, Margret and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 199–226 | Article