Publications

Publication details [#45366]

Ward, Nigel and Yaffa Al Bayyari. 2007. A prosodic feature that invites back-channels in Egyptian Arabic. In Mughazy, Mustafa, ed. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX. Papers from the twentieth annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2006. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 290). John Benjamins. pp. 187–206.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

back channel cue | pragmatics | prosody

Language as a subject

Arabic, Egyptian

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Annotation

This paper discusses a prosodic characteristic which invites the use of back-channels in Egyptian Arabic.