Like most human non-verbal vocalizations, laughter is produced by speakers of all
languages, across all known societies. But despite this obvious fact (or perhaps because of …

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

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 …

Understanding children's conversational skills is crucial for understanding their social,
cognitive, and linguistic development, with important applications in health and education …

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 …

Imagine you start a conversation with the newest socially interactive agent (SIA), a
humanoid robot or life-size embodied virtual agent. It talks to you and you talk back, but the …

Laughter is a social behavior that conveys a variety of emotional states and is also intricately
intertwined with linguistic communication. As people increasingly engage with voice …

Purpose: Our study addresses three main questions:(a) Do autistics and neurotypicals
produce different patterns of disfluencies, depending on the experimenter's direct versus …

The role of laughter in evaluating language use has received little attention in language
attitude research and laughter studies. In this paper, which draws on focus group …

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