Early preparation during turn-taking: Listeners use content predictions to determine what to say but not when to say it

Corps, Ruth E., Crossley, Abigail, Gambi, Chiara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1568-7779 and Pickering, Martin J. 2018. Early preparation during turn-taking: Listeners use content predictions to determine what to say but not when to say it. Cognition 175 , pp. 77-95. 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.01.015

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Abstract

During conversation, there is often little gap between interlocutors’ utterances. In two pairs of experiments, we manipulated the content predictability of yes/no questions to investigate whether listeners achieve such coordination by (i) preparing a response as early as possible or (ii) predicting the end of the speaker’s turn. To assess these two mechanisms, we varied the participants’ task: They either pressed a button when they thought the question was about to end (Experiments 1a and 2a), or verbally answered the questions with either yes or no (Experiments 1b and 2b). Predictability effects were present when participants had to prepare a verbal response, but not when they had to predict the turn-end. These findings suggest content prediction facilitates turn-taking because it allows listeners to prepare their own response early, rather than because it helps them predict when the speaker will reach the end of their turn.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Additional Information:	This is an open access article under the CC-BY license.
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0010-0277
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	5 February 2018
Date of Acceptance:	29 January 2018
Last Modified:	03 May 2023 07:32
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/108772

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