Artikel
The timing of utterance planning in task-oriented dialogue: evidence from a novel list-completion paradigm
In conversation, interlocutors rarely leave long gaps between turns, suggesting that next speakers begin to plan their turns while listening to the previous speaker. The present experiment used analyses of speech onset latencies and eye-movements in a task-oriented dialogue paradigm to investigate when speakers start planning their responses. German speakers heard a confederate describe sets of objects in utterances that either ended in a noun [e.g., Ich habe eine Tür und ein Fahrrad (“I have a door and a bicycle”)] or a verb form [e.g., Ich habe eine Tür und ein Fahrrad besorgt (“I have gotten a door and a bicycle”)], while the presence or absence of the final verb either was or was not predictable from the preceding sentence structure. In response, participants had to name any unnamed objects they could see in their own displays with utterances such as Ich habe ein Ei (“I have an egg”). The results show that speakers begin to plan their turns as soon as sufficient information is available to do so, irrespective of further incoming words.
- Language
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Englisch
- Subject
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Planung
Dialog
Konversationsanalyse
Sprecherwechsel
Gespräch
Augenbewegung
Deutsch
Syntax
Vorhersagbarkeit
Kognitive Linguistik
Sprache
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Barthel, Mathias
Sauppe, Sebastian
Levinson, Stephen C.
Meyer, Antje S.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Lausanne : Frontiers Media S.A.
Mannheim : Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS)
- (when)
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2022-04-19
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-110174
- Last update
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06.03.2025, 9:00 AM CET
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Associated
- Barthel, Mathias
- Sauppe, Sebastian
- Levinson, Stephen C.
- Meyer, Antje S.
- Lausanne : Frontiers Media S.A.
- Mannheim : Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS)
Time of origin
- 2022-04-19