The taking of turns is a fundamental aspect of dialogue. Since it is difficult to speak and listen
at the same time, the participants need to coordinate who is currently speaking and when …

In everyday discourse, people describe and point at things, but they also depict things with
their hands, arms, head, face, eyes, voice, and body, with and without props. Examples are …

This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers,
written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of …

Using footage from body-worn cameras, we analyze the respectfulness of police officer
language toward white and black community members during routine traffic stops. We …

Background: Although memory impairment is the main symptom of Alzheimer's disease
(AD), language impairment can be an important marker. Relatively few studies of language …

Abstract The INTERSPEECH 2013 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge provides for
the first time a unified test-bed for Social Signals such as laughter in speech. It further …

This article presents a review of the effects of adverse conditions (ACs) on the perceptual,
linguistic, cognitive, and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech recognition …

Winner of the 2011 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize Exploring fluency from multiple vantage
points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research …

Processing fluency, or the subjective experience of ease with which people process
information, reliably influences people's judgments across a broad range of social …

Disfluencies and language problems in Alzheimer's Disease can be naturally modeled by
fine-tuning Transformer-based pre-trained language models such as BERT and ERNIE …