This work explores the timing of very short utterances in conversations, as well as the effects
of excluding intervals adjacent to such utterances from distributions of betweenspeaker
interval durations. The results show that very short utterances are more precisely timed to
the preceding utterance than longer utterances in terms of a smaller variance and a larger
proportion of no-gap-no-overlaps. Excluding intervals adjacent to very short utterances
furthermore results in measures of central tendency closer to zero (ie no-gap-no-overlaps) …