Understanding the import of laughter, has interested philosophers and literary scholars for
millennia and, more recently, psychologists, biologists, neuroscientists, and linguists …

Laughter is a crucial signal for communication and managing interactions. Until now no
consensual approach has emerged for classifying laughter. We propose a new framework …

Laughter is a valuable means for communicating and engaging in interaction since the
earliest months of life. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of work on how its use develops in …

This study investigates the interplay of spoken and gestural hesitations under varying
amounts of cognitive load. We argue that not only fillers and silences, as the most common …

Laughter serves a wide variety of functions in adult interaction, some of which are quite
sophisticated from a pragmatic perspective. Nevertheless, it is a vocalization that emerges …

DiSS 2017 Page 1 Proceedings of DiSS 2017 The 8 th Workshop on Disfluency in
Spontaneous Speech KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden 18–19 August …

It has been established across a wide range of communicative behaviours that
conversational partners tend to become more similar during their interaction. This …

Machines have acquired language and learned to speak. This might be the impression one
gets when considering the remarkable improvements in sound quality of electronic devices …

Studies on laughter in dialogue have proposed resolving what laughter is about by looking
at what laughter follows. This paper investigates the sequential relation between the …