Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items

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Mark Dingemanse ,

* E-mail: mark.dingemanse@mpi.nl

Affiliation Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Francisco Torreira,

Affiliation Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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N. J. Enfield

Affiliations Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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