Question-answer sequences: On the contextualizing function of speech rhythm in conversation

Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth; Auer, Peter

doi:10.1075/pbns.6.2.02cou

In:Levels of Linguistic Adaptation: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987
Edited by Jef Verschueren
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 6:2] 1991
► pp. 1–18

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On the contextualizing function of speech rhythm in conversation

Question-answer sequences

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Peter Auer

Published online: 12 November 1991

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.6.2.02cou

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