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.

Interjection has no concrete meaning like noun, verb, nor adjective. It appears in spoken language to express one’s emotion a certain condition or situation. The interjection 哎呀 aiya is one of the most frequently used modern Chinese. Concerning哎呀, Oxford Concise Chinese Dictionary (2010:1) only mentions that 哎呀is surprise discontent. We presume there are more emotions available be expressed. Ba...

as onomatopoeic words or expressions are attractive, the users of languages in the fields of religion, literature, music, education, linguistics, trade, and so forth wish to utilize them in their utterances. they are more effective and imaginative than the simple words. onomatopoeic words or expressions attach us to the real nature and to our inner senses. this study aims at familiarity with on...

Questions researchers face include (i) how do ubiquitous computing systems or devices influence and assist in people's social performances? (ii) how do intelligent systems that take autonomous action influence people's sense of control and sense of self in social situations? and (iii) how does the interjection of computing into social spaces such as homes, cafes, parks, malls, and entertainment...

In this paper, the distribution of interjections over the clause is studied within the context of a topological framework. For this study authentic data were extracted from a corpus comprising one million words of written material and 174,000 words of spoken material. To explain this distribution we study the influence of the text type in which an interjection is found, the length of the interj...

We consider that factors such as prosody of systems’ utterances and dialogue rhythm are important to attain a natural human-machine dialogue. However, the relations between dialogue rhythm and speaker’s various states in task-oriented dialogue have been not revealed. In this study, we collected taskoriented dialogues and analyzed the relations between “dialogue structures, kinds of dialogue act...