@InProceedings{Trouvain:2001,
        AUTHOR = {Trouvain, Jürgen},
        TITLE = {Phonetic Aspects of Speech-Laughs''},
        YEAR = {2001},
        BOOKTITLE = {Conference on Orality & Gestuality (ORAGE), June 18-22},
        PAGES = {634-639},
        ADDRESS = {Aix-en-Provence, France},
        ABSTRACT = {This study examines laughter co-occurring speech, so-called speech-laughs in a corpus of German spontaneous dialogues. Against a common expectation the majority of labelled laughs are speech-laughs. The phonetic characteristics for this type of laughter is an additional aspiration (different for voiced and unvoiced sounds) which is sometimes accompanied by a vibrato voice quality and a duration of two syllables. In a perception test the hypothesis of an acoustic continuum from smile to laugh has been rejected. The results and the problems are discussed in the context of paralinguistic phonetics.},
        ANNOTE = {COLIURL : Trouvain:2001:PAS.pdf Trouvain:2001:PAS.ps} }
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