Vocal laughter punctuates speech and manual signing: Novel evidence for similar linguistic and neurological mechanisms
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DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x15003040
Abstract: Abstract Vocal laughter fills conversations between speakers with normal hearing and between deaf users of American Sign Language, but laughter rarely intrudes on the phrase structure of spoken or signed conversation, being akin to punctuation… read more here.
Keywords: manual signing; speech manual; laughter; laughter punctuates ... See more keywords