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Christy Bird
B.A. 2003, French, California State University, Long Beach
Sociocultural linguistics; prosody; humor; language ideology; Japanese; French

CURRENT PROJECTS

  • The prosody of riddle openings: Formulaic wh-questions vs. conversational wh-questions in interaction
  • "I'm almost afraid to tell this": Risk and performance in formulaic joke telling in interaction