Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Michael Rosen and linguist Dr Laura Wright: Taking turn in conversation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zryhp

How do we learn to take turns in conversation?

  • 200 millisecond gap between taking turns (fifth of a second)
  • shortest human response time
  • 600milliseconds to name a picture
  • predicting what the other persons going to say
  • preparing before they finish talking
  • rising intonations
  • Multitasking -preparing answer and listening at the same time
  • 15000 times a day
  • saying no(negative response) - takes longer than saying yes because its harder
  • Predictions use grammar, collocations e.g inland ----- revenue
  • cues given early in questions lead to quicker answers compared to cues given 
  • Learn turn-taking at 3 months (reciprocity) 600 milliseconds




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