Turn-taking in Human Communication – Origins and Implications for Language Processing

Levinson, Stephen C.

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2015.10.010

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“…Participants coordinate to put together their efforts in an optimal way, which involves correctly anticipating what one's partners will do and timing one's own actions, i.e., doing the right thing at the right time (Sebanz & Knoblich, 2009). Progress within the main body typically is accomplished via ad hoc turn-taking (Levinson, 2016). For example, two children engaging in pretend play might coordinate switching roles within the play session.…”

Section: Entering Into Maintaining and Dissolving Shared Intentionalmentioning

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Social play as joint action: A framework to study the evolution of shared intentionality as an interactional achievement

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Section: Entering Into Maintaining and Dissolving Shared Intentionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social play as joint action: A framework to study the evolution of shared intentionality as an interactional achievement

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“…Similarly, the smooth turn-taking occurring during conversation [52] strongly speaks for an autonomous and self-organizing interactive state, as discussed above [6].…”

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Attending to and neglecting people: bridging neuroscience, psychology and sociology

Hari

Sams

Nummenmaa

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One contribution of 15 to a theme issue 'Attending to and neglecting people'. Human behaviour is context-dependent-based on predictions and influenced by the environment and other people. We live in a dynamic world where both the social stimuli and their context are constantly changing. Similar dynamic, natural stimuli should, in the future, be increasingly used to study social brain functions, with parallel development of appropriate signal-analysis methods. Understanding dynamic neural processes also requires accurate time-sensitive characterization of the behaviour. To go beyond the traditional stimulus-response approaches, brain activity should be recorded simultaneously from two interacting subjects to reveal why human social interaction is critically different from just reacting to each other. This theme issue on Attending to and neglecting people contains original work and review papers on person perception and social interaction. The articles cover research from neuroscience, psychology, robotics, animal interaction research and microsociology. Some of the papers are co-authored by scientists who presented their own, independent views in the recent Attention and Performance XXVI conference but were brave enough to join forces with a colleague having a different background and views. In the future, information needs to converge across disciplines to provide us a more holistic view of human behaviour, its interactive nature, as well as the temporal dynamics of our social world.

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“…These processes are so finely coordinated that interlocutors often minimize both overlap and gaps between turns. Indeed, Stivers et al (2009) found average inter-turn intervals between 0 and 200 ms in a comparison of 10 different languages, with overlap occurring only about 5% of the time (Levinson, 2016). Duncan (1972Duncan ( , 1974Duncan & Niederhe, 1974) proposed that interlocutors time their contributions during conversation by reacting to the presence of linguistic (e.g., drawl on the final syllable of the utterance) and nonlinguistic (e.g., termination of hand gestures) turn-yielding cues displayed at the end of the speaker's turn.…”

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“…Current theories agree that interlocutors achieve such timings using prediction (De Ruiter, Mitterer, & Enfield, 2006;Garrod & Pickering, 2015;Levinson, 2016). Research has focused on how the listener can use such predictions to determine when the speaker will reach the end of their turn (e.g., De Ruiter et al, 2006;Magyari, Bastiaansen, De Ruiter, & Levinson, 2014) so they can articulate their response at the appropriate moment.…”

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“…Research has focused on how the listener can use such predictions to determine when the speaker will reach the end of their turn (e.g., De Ruiter et al, 2006;Magyari, Bastiaansen, De Ruiter, & Levinson, 2014) so they can articulate their response at the appropriate moment. However, if listeners can predict what the speaker will say before the speaker reaches the end of their turn, then the listener can also begin preparing their own response in advance (Garrod & Pickering, 2015;Levinson, 2016). So how are the processes of prediction, response preparation, and articulation coordinated during turn-taking?…”

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Coordinating Utterances During Turn-Taking: The Role of Prediction, Response Preparation, and Articulation

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Gambi

Pickering

2017

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During conversation, interlocutors rapidly switch between speaker and listener roles and take turns at talk. How do they achieve such fine coordination? Most research has concentrated on the role of prediction, but listeners must also prepare a response in advance (assuming they wish to respond) and articulate this response at the appropriate moment. Such mechanisms may overlap with the processes of comprehending the speaker's incoming turn and predicting its end. However, little is known about the stages of response preparation and production. We discuss three questions pertaining to such stages: (1) Do listeners prepare their own response in advance?, (2) Can listeners buffer their prepared response?, and (3) Does buffering lead to interference with concurrent comprehension? We argue that fine coordination requires more than just an accurate prediction of the interlocutor's incoming turn: Listeners must also simultaneously prepare their own response.

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Turn-taking in Human Communication – Origins and Implications for Language Processing

Cited by 526 publications

References 59 publications

Social play as joint action: A framework to study the evolution of shared intentionality as an interactional achievement

Social play as joint action: A framework to study the evolution of shared intentionality as an interactional achievement

Attending to and neglecting people: bridging neuroscience, psychology and sociology

Coordinating Utterances During Turn-Taking: The Role of Prediction, Response Preparation, and Articulation

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