Signals of Understanding in Multilingual Communication: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Turkish and Azerbaijani Interjections

2017-06-07
Akkuş, Mehmet
Sağın Şimşek, Sultan Çiğdem
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M. Akkuş and S. Ç. Sağın Şimşek, “Signals of Understanding in Multilingual Communication: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Turkish and Azerbaijani Interjections,” 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/73977.
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