Nigel Ward
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nigel Ward plays a role.
Articles
2007 A prosodic feature that invites back-channels in Egyptian Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Mughazy, Mustafa A. (ed.), pp. 187–206 | Article
2006 Non-lexical conversational sounds in American English Pragmatics & Cognition 14:1, pp. 129–182 | Article
Sounds like h-nmm, hh-aaaah, hn-hn, unkay, nyeah, ummum, uuh, um-hm-uh-hm, um and uh-huh occur frequently in American English conversation but have thus far escaped systematic study. This article reports a study of both the forms and functions of such tokens in a corpus of American English… read more