Co-Speech Movement in Conversational Turn-Taking
This study investigates co-speech movements as a function of the conversational turn exchange type, the type of speech material at a turn exchange, and the interlocutor’s role as speaker or listener. A novel interactive protocol that mixes conversation and (non-read) nursery rhymes works to elicit m...
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| description | This study investigates co-speech movements as a function of the conversational turn exchange type, the type of speech material at a turn exchange, and the interlocutor’s role as speaker or listener. A novel interactive protocol that mixes conversation and (non-read) nursery rhymes works to elicit many speech turns and co-speech movements within dyadic speech interaction. To evaluate a large amount of data, we use the density of co-speech movement as a quantitative measure. Results indicate that both turn exchange type and participant role are associated with variation in movement density for head and brow co-speech movement. Brow and head movement becomes denser as speakers approach overlapping speech exchanges, indicating that speakers increase their movement density as an interruptive exchange is approached. Similarly, head movement generally increases after such overlapping exchanges. Lastly, listeners display a higher rate of co-speech movement than speakers, both at speech turns and remote from them. Brow and head movements generally behave similarly across speech material types, conversational roles, and turn exchange types. On the whole, the study demonstrates that the quantitative co-speech movement density measure advanced here is useful in the study of co-speech movement and turn-taking. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a775437fedea4ddbbd5dbf4a09d454742022-12-21T19:23:04ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Communication2297-900X2021-12-01610.3389/fcomm.2021.779814779814Co-Speech Movement in Conversational Turn-TakingSamantha Gordon Danner0Jelena Krivokapić1Dani Byrd2University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDepartment of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThis study investigates co-speech movements as a function of the conversational turn exchange type, the type of speech material at a turn exchange, and the interlocutor’s role as speaker or listener. A novel interactive protocol that mixes conversation and (non-read) nursery rhymes works to elicit many speech turns and co-speech movements within dyadic speech interaction. To evaluate a large amount of data, we use the density of co-speech movement as a quantitative measure. Results indicate that both turn exchange type and participant role are associated with variation in movement density for head and brow co-speech movement. Brow and head movement becomes denser as speakers approach overlapping speech exchanges, indicating that speakers increase their movement density as an interruptive exchange is approached. Similarly, head movement generally increases after such overlapping exchanges. Lastly, listeners display a higher rate of co-speech movement than speakers, both at speech turns and remote from them. Brow and head movements generally behave similarly across speech material types, conversational roles, and turn exchange types. On the whole, the study demonstrates that the quantitative co-speech movement density measure advanced here is useful in the study of co-speech movement and turn-taking.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.779814/fullturn-takingmultimodal speechhead movementbrow movementconversational interaction |
| spellingShingle | Samantha Gordon Danner Jelena Krivokapić Dani Byrd Co-Speech Movement in Conversational Turn-Taking Frontiers in Communication turn-taking multimodal speech head movement brow movement conversational interaction |
| title | Co-Speech Movement in Conversational Turn-Taking |
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| title_short | Co-Speech Movement in Conversational Turn-Taking |
| title_sort | co speech movement in conversational turn taking |
| topic | turn-taking multimodal speech head movement brow movement conversational interaction |
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