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Subject: 31.1609, Calls: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Phonetics, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 21:20:07
From: Mathias Barthel [mathias.barthel at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: The Role of the Current Speaker in Conversational Turn Taking – Theoretical, Experimental, and Corpus Linguistic Perspectives on Speaker Contributions to Aligned Turn-Timing

 
Full Title: The Role of the Current Speaker in Conversational Turn Taking – Theoretical, Experimental, and Corpus Linguistic Perspectives on Speaker Contributions to Aligned Turn-Timing 
Short Title: CurrentSpeakers-2021 

Date: 14-Jan-2021 - 15-Jan-2021
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Mathias Barthel
Meeting Email: currentspeakers2021 at easychair.org
Web Site: https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/news/conferences/workshop-current-speaker/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2020 

Meeting Description:

As a rule-of-thumb, smooth unmarked turn taking is generally characterized by
showing neither long gaps nor overlap between adjacent turns. How
interlocutors achieve this high degree of temporal alignment between the end
of a turn and the beginning of the next turn in light of the latencies
involved in speech production is still a question of debate, even though
considerable advances have been made recently (Barthel, 2020; Garrod &
Pickering, 2015; Gísladóttir, 2015; Heldner & Edlund, 2010, Holler et al.,
2016). Current theories describing the mechanisms subserving smooth
conversation locate the computational pressure underlying successful turn
transfer primarily on the side of the listener who intends to become the next
speaker. However, in order to arrive at a holistic description of the turn
taking system, conversation can be more accurately conceptualized as a
sequence of actions that is jointly coordinated by all of its participants, no
matter whether they assume the role of the speaker or listener at a given
moment. For such collaborative orchestration of conversational moves,
interlocutors in pursuit of efficient temporal alignment of speaking turns
need to be mutually supportive at any point in time. In that cooperative
framework, the (para-)linguistic tools available to interlocutors who are in
the role of the current speaker remain understudied and are in need of
systematic description, both theoretically as well as empirically.

The workshop will focus on the questions whether and in what ways current
speakers are actively supporting smooth turn transitions and how and when they
use the resources available to them.

References: 
Barthel, M. (2020). Speech planning in dialogue - Psycholinguistic studies of
the timing of turn taking. Doctoral thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Garrod, S., & Pickering, M. J. (2015). The use of content and timing to
predict turn transitions. Frontiers in Psychology, 6.
Gísladóttir, R. S. (2015). Conversation electrified: The electrophysiology of
spoken speech act recognition. Doctoral thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Heldner, M., & Edlund, J. (2010). Pauses, gaps and overlaps in conversations.
Journal of Phonetics, 38(4), 555-568.
Holler, J., Kendrick, K. H., Casillas, M., & Levinson, S. C. (Eds.). (2016).
Turn-taking in human communicative interaction. Lausanne: Frontiers Media.


Call for Papers: 

The workshop will focus on the questions whether and in what ways current
speakers are actively supporting smooth turn transitions and how and when they
use the resources available to them.

Submissions for 30 minute talks on the following (and related) questions are
invited:
 - What affordances of grammar are employed by current speakers to aid smooth
turn taking?
 - How do speakers and listeners manage smooth turn taking collaboratively?
 - When and how do speakers make use of multimodal or paralinguistic signals,
such as gestures, gaze, or prosodic cues, to aid temporally aligned turn
transfer?

Several research traditions have studied the phenomenon of conversational turn
taking from different perspectives, including psycholinguistics, grammar
theory, corpus linguistics, and conversation analysis. These traditions are
recently beginning to join forces in this overlapping research agenda.
Research primarily employing methodologies common to any of these fields as
well as cross disciplinary research projects are explicitly invited in order
to discuss possibilities of future methodological fusion and to support
collaborative research crossing the boundaries of disciplines. The languages
and communities under study will not be restricted.

Abstracts may not exceed one A4 page with 1-inch margins on all sides written
in 12pt Times New Roman font using APA citation style plus an optional
additional page for figures, tables, and references. Please send your
submissions in a single PDF file via the workshop's easychair website:

https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=RjcY4fak8k6Edhm3Su44ek#

Notifications will be sent at 31 August 2020.




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