Non-Lexical Conversational Sounds in American English

Non-Lexical Conversational Sounds in American English Nigel Ward phone: 915-747-6827 fax: 915-747-5030 Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX 79968-0518 0Acknowledgements: I thank Takeki Kamiyama for phonetic label checking, Gautam Keene and Andres Tellez for pragmatic function labeling and discussion, and all those who let me record their conversations. For general discussion I thank Daniel Jurafsky and Kazutaka Maruyama.

• common cause of phonetic variety
• inventory of sounds groups
• phonetic components
• delay from the onset of the click to the onset
• lexical items
• such items
• corpus
• sound
• sounds
• click