Youngsters do not pay attention to conversational rules: is this so for nonhuman primates?

Lemasson, Alban; Glas, L.; Barbu, Stéphanie; Lacroix, Agnès; Guilloux, Manon; Remeuf, Kévin; Koda, Hiroki

doi:10.1038/srep00022

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“…This observation suggests that the ability to respect turns may be acquired during development. This was confirmed by Lemasson et al (2010Lemasson et al ( , 2011 who showed that young primates are 12 times more likely to interrupt turntaking by calling twice successively than are adults and by Chow et al (2015) who demonstrated that common marmoset parents guide vocal turn taking development in their young. In humans, self-monitoring is an essential ability for turntaking, fully developed only after 2 years of age (MacDonald et al, 2012).…”

Section: Coordination In Mammals and Birds' Vocal Interactionssupporting

confidence: 59%

Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction

Holler

Kendrick

Casillas

et al. 2016

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The core use of language is in face-to-face conversation. This is characterized by rapid turn-taking. This turn-taking poses a number central puzzles for the psychology of language. Consider, for example, that in large corpora the gap between turns is on the order of 100 to 300 ms, but the latencies involved in language production require minimally between 600ms (for a single word) or 1500 ms (for as simple sentence). This implies that participants in conversation are predicting the ends of the incoming turn and preparing in advance. But how is this done? What aspects of this prediction are done when? What happens when the prediction is wrong? What stops participants coming in too early? If the system is running on prediction, why is there consistently a mode of 100 to 300 ms in response time? The timing puzzle raises further puzzles: it seems that comprehension must run parallel with the preparation for production, but it has been presumed that there are strict cognitive limitations on more than one central process running at a time. How is this bottleneck overcome? Far from being 'easy' as some psychologists have suggested, conversation may be one of the most demanding cognitive tasks in our everyday lives. Further questions naturally arise: how do children learn to master this demanding task, and what is the developmental trajectory in this domain? Research shows that aspects of turn-taking such as its timing are remarkably stable across languages and cultures, but the word order of languages varies enormously. How then does prediction of the incoming turn work when the verb (often the informational nugget in a clause) is at the end? Conversely, how can production work fast enough in languages that have the verb at the beginning, thereby requiring early planning of the whole clause? What happens when one changes modality, as in sign languages -- with the loss of channel constraints is turn-taking much freer? And what about face-to-face communication amongst hearing individuals -- do gestures, gaze, and other body behaviors facilitate turn-taking? One can also ask the phylogenetic question: how did such a system evolve? There seem to be parallels (analogies) in duetting bird species, and in a variety of monkey species, but there is little evidence of anything like this among the great apes. All this constitutes a neglected set of problems at the heart of the psychology of language and of the language sciences. This research topic welcomes contributions from right across the board, for example from psycholinguists, developmental psychologists, students of dialogue and conversation analysis, linguists interested in the use of language, phoneticians, corpus analysts and comparative ethologists or psychologists. We welcome contributions of all sorts, for example original research papers, opinion pieces, and reviews of work in subfields that may not be fully understood in other subfields

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Section: Coordination In Mammals and Birds' Vocal Interactionssupporting

confidence: 59%

Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction

Holler

Kendrick

Casillas

et al. 2016

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“…It is not a simple reflex of the limitations of the vocal-auditory channel, as it occurs equally in manual sign languages. Interestingly, vocal alternation also occurs (if patchily) right across the primate order, from lemurs [48] to marmosets [49,50], from Campbell's monkeys [51] to gibbons [52]. Although it is, curiously, not a major feature of communication among the great apes, the trait is perhaps persistent enough to suggest homology, though convergent evolution cannot be ruled out [53,54].…”

Section: (A) Pragmatics As the Foundation Of Human Communicationmentioning

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The origin of human multi-modal communication

Levinson

Holler

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One reason for the apparent gulf between animal and human communication systems is that the focus has been on the presence or the absence of language as a complex expressive system built on speech. But language normally occurs embedded within an interactional exchange of multi-modal signals. If this larger perspective takes central focus, then it becomes apparent that human communication has a layered structure, where the layers may be plausibly assigned different phylogenetic and evolutionary origins—especially in the light of recent thoughts on the emergence of voluntary breathing and spoken language. This perspective helps us to appreciate the different roles that the different modalities play in human communication, as well as how they function as one integrated system despite their different roles and origins. It also offers possibilities for reconciling the ‘gesture-first hypothesis’ with that of gesture and speech having evolved together, hand in hand—or hand in mouth, rather—as one system

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“…The vocal systems of the 300 primate species remain understudied, but we have detailed reports of vocal turn-taking or alternating duetting from all the major branches of the family: (i) from the lemurs, Lepilemur edwardsi [53], (ii) from New World monkeys the common marmoset Callithrix jacchus [54,55], the pygmy marmoset Cebuella pygmaea [56], the coppery titi Callicebus cupreus [57], and squirrel monkeys of the Saimiri genus [58]; (iii) from the Old World monkeys Campbell's monkey Cercopithecus campbelli [59], and (iv) from the lesser apes, siamangs Hylobates syndactylus [60,61]. One can expect that many other cases are yet to be reported.…”

Section: Origins Of the Turn-taking Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%