Parity and Disparity in Conversational Interaction

Pardo, Jennifer S.

doi:10.1002/9781118829516.ch6

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“…This corpus can inform a robust body of research on task-oriented referential communication (reviewed in Brennan, Galati, & Kuhlen, 2010;Krauss, 1987;Pardo, 2017;Schober & Brennan, 2003). For example, many previous studies investigating the development of referential terms for ambiguous figures in role-differentiated settings have assessed efficiency in communication, finding that talkers shorten and tailor referents for specific addressees (e.g., Brennan & Clark, 1996;Clark & Wilkes-Gibbs, 1986;Krauss & Bricker, 1967;Schober & Clark, 1989;Wilkes-Gibbs & Clark, 1992).…”

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The Montclair Map Task: Balance, Efficacy, and Efficiency in Conversational Interaction

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This paper introduces a conversational speech corpus collected during the completion of a map-matching task that is available for research purposes via the Montclair State University Digital Commons Data Repository. The Montclair Map Task is a new, role-neutral conversational task that involves paired iconic maps with labeled landmarks and a path drawn from a start point, around various landmarks, to a finish mark. One advantage of this task-oriented corpus is the ability to derive independent objective measures of task performance for both members of a conversational pair that can be related to aspects of communicative style. A total of 96 native English speakers completed the task in 16 same-sex female, 16 same-sex male, and 16 mixed-sex pairings. Conversations averaged 32 minutes in duration, yielding approximately 217,000 words. The transcription protocol delineates events such as speaking turns, inter-turn intervals, landmark phrases, fillers, pauses, overlaps, and backchannels, making this corpus a useful tool for investigating dynamics of conversational interaction. Analyses of communication efficacy and efficiency reveal that male pairs of talkers were less efficient than female and mixed-sex pairs with respect to partner map-matching task performance.

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