One night last week, I explained to a youthful hotel desk clerk that my family and I were interested in playing cards up in our room, then asked her if the hotel had a deck. She made this sound:. Then ...

But enough from me and my unnatural introduction. I spoke with two researchers about interjections, and I kicked things off the way I typically do for podcast interviews: Adam Levy: To start with, ...

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

Facebook was in the news last week for introducing a choice of five emoji you can use to tag a post or other online object that inspires some emotion in you. Formerly, your only recourse was the ...

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2013.30.5.441 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mp.2013.30.5.441 Copy URL This paper describes the first laboratory study of an ...