We live our lives in conversation, building families, societies and civilisations. In over seven
thousand languages across the world, the basic infrastructure by which we communicate …

Conversation is one of the most widespread uses of human language, but what is actually
happening when we interact this way? How is conversation structured? How does it …

This book presents a systematic hypothesis testing approach to the assessment of speech
processing skills in children, and is based on the popular courses run by the authors. The …

Language is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that we use,
subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve our goals in our interaction with others …

Corpus analyses have shown that turn-taking in conversation is much faster than laboratory
studies of speech planning would predict. To explain fast turn-taking, Levinson and Torreira …

Overlapping speech has been identified as one of the main sources of errors in diarization of
meeting room conversations. Therefore, overlap detection has become an important step …

To what extent are linguistic representations shared between production and
comprehension? What is the nature of the links between production and comprehension …

This paper presents a corpus study on the role of gaze for overlap resolution in German and
Dutch triadic interactions. The focus is on overlap due to a simultaneous start by two …

This work revisits the problem of breathing cues used for management of speaking turns in
multiparty casual conversation. We propose a new categorization of turn-taking events …

This thesis describes the understudied interactional practice of co-animation: during the
development of an activity in conversation, a speaker incorporates an animation-ie a quote …