PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Speech Disfluency, Cognitive Load
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How do we know when it"s our turn: reactive accounts in turn taking. Speaker gives listener signals that his part is ending. Listener reacts by responding to these cues and taking over. These signals are: drop in pitch, drop in loudness, lengthened syllable at turn-final utterance, using hand gestures, completion of a well-formed sentence, using stereotypic sentences like you know" or something". When all 6 are produced, 50 % take these cues and start their turn: projective accounts of turn taking. Listener and speaker recognize goals of the conversation. Turn taking happens when listener has to contribute something to make the conversation go towards its goals. This is based on meaning, intention and utterance, not on sounds or gestures. Listener takes over 200 ms after speaker is done. He uses back chanelling (providing signals like umm" or yeah" or i see") to show the progression of the conversation.
