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Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items
A word like Huh?–used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard what someone just said– is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken languages across the globe. We investigate it in naturally occurring conversations in ten languages and present evidence and argum...
Autores principales: | Dingemanse, Mark, Torreira, Francisco, Enfield, N. J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3832628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24260108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078273 |
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