Acoustic and respiratory evidence for utterance planning in German

Fuchs, Susanne; Petrone, Caterina; Krivokapic, Jelena; Hoole, Phil

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2012.08.007

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“…Moreover, visual inspection of the data indicated that this lack of statistical relationships was not due to outliers. Thus, contrary to previous findings (Winkworth et al, 1995;Whalen and Kinsella-Shaw, 1997;Fuchs et al, 2013), we did not observe any statistical relationship between utterance duration and the amplitude and duration of pre-utterance inbreaths.…”

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“…Several studies have identified a relationship between breathing behavior and utterance duration, indicating that breathing can be informative about the scope of language planning (e.g., Winkworth et al, 1995;Whalen and Kinsella-Shaw, 1997;Fuchs et al, 2013;Rochet-Capellan and Fuchs, 2013). Fuchs et al (2013) investigated several speech planning parameters, including inhalation depth and inhalation duration, using read materials varying in length and syntactic complexity, and found that inhalation depth and duration were positively correlated with utterance length. Using a corpus of spontaneous conversation, Rochet-Capellan and Fuchs (2013) also observed positive correlations between utterance length and inbreath depth and duration.…”

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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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Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction

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“…inhalation is greater before a main clause than an embedded clause). These properties are observed in read speech [16,17,19,20,22] and, to a lesser extent, in spontaneous speech [18,19,21]. These results show that, at least during monologue, the respiratory system works in coordination with speech and language constraints, and that our oral communicative ability is closely linked to the respiratory function.…”

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“…Breathing cycles in speech are also irregular: the depth and duration of inhalation and exhalation vary as a function of the utterance produced over the course of the exhalation phase. Longer utterances involve longer exhalation, and also tend to be preceded by longer and deeper inhalations [15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. In addition, inhalation pauses are coordinated with the linguistic structure of the text: speakers mainly take breaths at syntactic boundaries.…”

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Take a breath and take the turn: how breathing meets turns in spontaneous dialogue

Rochet-Capellan

Fuchs

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Physiological rhythms are sensitive to social interactions and could contribute to defining social rhythms. Nevertheless, our knowledge of the implications of breathing in conversational turn exchanges remains limited. In this paper, we addressed the idea that breathing may contribute to timing and coordination between dialogue partners. The relationships between turns and breathing were analysed in unconstrained face-to-face conversations involving female speakers. No overall relationship between breathing and turn-taking rates was observed, as breathing rate was specific to the subjects' activity in dialogue (listening versus taking the turn versus holding the turn). A general inter-personal coordination of breathing over the whole conversation was not evident. However, specific coordinative patterns were observed in shorter time-windows when participants engaged in taking turns. The type of turn-taking had an effect on the respective coordination in breathing. Most of the smooth and interrupted turns were taken just after an inhalation, with specific profiles of alignment to partner breathing. Unsuccessful attempts to take the turn were initiated late in the exhalation phase and with no clear inter-personal coordination. Finally, breathing profiles at turn-taking were different than those at turn-holding. The results support the idea that breathing is actively involved in turn-taking and turn-holding.

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“…But when do listeners begin preparing this response? Torreira, Bögels, and examined the time course of listeners' prespeech inbreaths, which have been shown to be related to response preparation (e.g., Fuchs, Petrone, Krivokapić, & Hoole, 2013). They found that listeners took inbreaths after the end of the speaker's utterance, suggesting listeners may have reacted to turn final cues displayed at the end of the speaker's utterance.…”

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

Corps

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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Acoustic and respiratory evidence for utterance planning in German

Cited by 70 publications

References 57 publications

Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction

Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction

Take a breath and take the turn: how breathing meets turns in spontaneous dialogue

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

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