The Relationship between Sound and Meaning in Japanese Back-channel Grunts

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  • Nigel Ward
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This version of the paper omits the Japanese abstract which appeared in the proceedings version (4th Annual Meeting of the (Japanese) Association for Natural Language Processing, March 1998, Fukuoka, pp 464–467.)

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تاریخ انتشار 1998