Social and Cognitive Influences on the Timing of Other-Initiations of Repair.
Mertens, Julia.
2019
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Interlocutors tend to initiate their utterances within 250ms after the end of the previous turn. However, some speech acts are delayed. These delays may be due to preference organization: speakers display upcoming trouble by initiating their turn later. In contrast, these delays may be due to cognition: speakers may need more time to process or access information before initiating their turn. In ... read morethis study, we investigate the relative contributions of social and cognitive factors to the timing of utterances in conversation. People display their non-hearings or non-understandings by producing other-initiations of repair (OIRs). OIRs are delayed, dispreferred, and occur when information is inaccessible. Therefore, we studied whether factors that influence preference organization or information processing were related to the timing of OIRs. We found that OIRs were produced later when information was more difficult to process and when the OIR was more dispreferred. This shows that delays in conversation can be structural and cognitive.
Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts University, 2019.
Submitted to the Dept. of Psychology.
Advisor: Jan Peter de Ruiter.
Committee: Ari Goldberg, and Saul Albert.
Keywords: Psychology, Communication, and Language.read less - ID:
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