Most language usage is interactive, involving rapid turn-taking. The turn-taking system has a
number of striking properties: turns are short and responses are remarkably rapid, but turns …

The core niche for language use is in verbal interaction, involving the rapid exchange of
turns at talking. This paper reviews the extensive literature about this system, adding new …

Clicking is one of the most robust metaphors for social connection. But how do we know
when two people" click"? We asked pairs of friends and strangers to talk with each other and …

What makes possible the co-creation of meaningful action? In this paper, we go in search of
an answer to this question by combining insights from interactional sociology and enaction …

Intersubjectivity refers to two non-verbal intersubjective relations infants experience during
their first year that are precursors to the emergence of words. Trevarthen, a pioneer in the …

This article expands the study of other-initiated repair in conversation—when one party
signals a problem with producing or perceiving another's turn at talk—into the domain of …

Human communication displays a striking contrast between the diversity of languages and
the universality of the principles underlying their use in conversation. Despite the importance …

What you are holding (or reading digitally) is the first comprehensive descriptive grammar of
Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse Gebarentaal, NGT). It is a unique …

Practices of other-initiated repair deal with problems of hearing or understanding what
another person has said in the fast-moving turn-by-turn flow of conversation. As such, other …

The integration of information across distinct modalities enhances perceptual abilities. An
ecologically important role of multisensory integration is in scaffolding verbal …