Timing in Conversation

Meyer, Antje S.

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“…This is despite the fact that it takes much longer to plan and produce even short utterances, suggesting that mental processes must overlap (Levinson & Torreira, 2015). Crucially, the speed at which this happens also implies that some type of prediction is taking place: listeners can use a number of cues in the signal to anticipate the end of a turn (see A. S. Meyer (2023) for a review). This appeal to predictive processing is similar to arguments made in the context of speech shadowing, where speakers can repeat speech at speeds -250 milliseconds or less between hearing and repeatingthat strongly suggest a predictive influence from higher-order syntactic, semantic or pragmatic contexts (Chistovich, 1960;Marslen-Wilson, 1973, 1985.…”

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Phonetics in the Brain

Söderström

2024

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Spoken language is a rapidly unfolding signal: a complex code that the listener must crack to understand what is being said. From the structures of the inner ear through to higher-order areas of the brain, a hierarchy of interlinked processes transforms the acoustic signal into a linguistic message within fractions of a second. This Element outlines how speech is perceived and explores what the auditory system needs to achieve to make this possible. It traces a path through the system and discusses the mechanisms that enable us to perceive speech as a coherent sequence of words. This is combined with a brief history of research into language and the brain beginning in the nineteenth century, as well as an overview of the state-of-the-art neuroimaging and analysis techniques that are used to investigate phonetics in the brain today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Phonetics in the Brain

Söderström

2024

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The Dark Matter of Pragmatics

Levinson

2024

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This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of Pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. The authors can identify a key bottleneck in human communication, the sheer limitation on the speed of speech encoding: Pragmatics occupies the niche nestled between slow speech encoding and fast comprehension. Pragmatic strategies are tricks for evading this tight encoding bottleneck by meaning more than you say. Five such tricks are reviewed, which are all domains where the authors have made considerable progress. The authors can then ask for each of these areas, where have the authors neglected to push the frontier forward? These are the known unknowns of pragmatics, key areas, and topics for future research. The Element thus offers a brief review of some central areas of pragmatics, and a survey of targets for future research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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You Don’t Need to Speak, You Need to Listen: Robot Interaction and Human-Like Turn-Taking

Aylett

Romeo

2023

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

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Timing in Conversation

Cited by 5 publications

References 124 publications

Phonetics in the Brain

Phonetics in the Brain

The Dark Matter of Pragmatics

You Don’t Need to Speak, You Need to Listen: Robot Interaction and Human-Like Turn-Taking

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