This paper investigates the relation between the sound patterns of interjections and their functional realisation in the discourse process. It considers whether certain interjection functions tend to have particular sound distributions. In order to address these questions a classification scheme for American English nonlexical interjections in terms of discourse markers is also presented.
Cite as: Nenova, N., Joue, G., Reilly, R., Carson-Berndsen, J. (2001) Sound and function regularities in interjections. Proc. ITRW on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2001), 49-52
@inproceedings{nenova01_diss,
author={Nikolinka Nenova and Gina Joue and Ronan Reilly and Julie Carson-Berndsen},
title={{Sound and function regularities in interjections}},
year=2001,
booktitle={Proc. ITRW on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2001)},
pages={49--52}
}