TY - BOOK ID - 8206906 TI - Turn-taking in human communicative interaction AU - Holler, Judith AU - Kendrick, Kobin H. AU - Casillas, Marisa AU - Levinson, Stephen C. PY - 2016 SN - 2889198251 9782889198252 PB - Frontiers Media SA DB - UniCat KW - Psycholinguistics. KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Etiquette. KW - Conversation. KW - Pragmatics. KW - Speech acts (Linguistics) KW - Social interaction. KW - Human interaction KW - Interaction, Social KW - Symbolic interaction KW - Exchange theory (Sociology) KW - Psychology KW - Social psychology KW - Pragmalinguistics KW - General semantics KW - Language and languages KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - Talking KW - Colloquial language KW - Etiquette KW - Oral communication KW - Ceremonies KW - Condolence, Etiquette of KW - Manners KW - Politeness KW - Usages KW - Conduct of life KW - Manners and customs KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Language, Psychology of KW - Psychology of language KW - Speech KW - Thought and thinking KW - Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) KW - Speech act theory (Linguistics) KW - Speech events (Linguistics) KW - Philosophy KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - Psychological aspects KW - face-to-face conversation KW - psychology KW - psychology of language KW - psycholinguists KW - turn-taking KW - language sciences KW - language KW - Frontiers in Psychology KW - Intonation (linguistics) KW - Prosody (linguistics) KW - Sign language KW - Stroke KW - Syntax KW - Utterance UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8206906 AB - 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 600 ms (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 contributes to advancing our understanding of these problems by summarizing recent work from psycholinguists, developmental psychologists, students of dialog and conversation analysis, linguists, phoneticians, and comparative ethologists. ER -