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Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language by Levinson, Stephen C, Torreira, Francisco

“…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…”
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Listeners use intonational phrase boundaries to project turn ends in spoken interaction by Bögels, Sara, Torreira, Francisco

“…In conversation, turn transitions between speakers often occur smoothly, usually within a time window of a few hundred milliseconds. It has been argued, on the…”
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The Timing and Construction of Preference: A Quantitative Study by Kendrick, Kobin H., Torreira, Francisco

“…Conversation-analytic research has argued that the timing and construction of preferred responding actions (e.g., acceptances) differ from that of dispreferred…”
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Is "huh?" a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items by Dingemanse, Mark, Torreira, Francisco, Enfield, N J

“…A word like Huh?--used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard what someone just said--is found in roughly the same form and…”
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Timing of Visual Bodily Behavior in Repair Sequences: Evidence From Three Languages by Floyd, Simeon, Manrique, Elizabeth, Rossi, Giovanni, Torreira, Francisco

“…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…”
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Turn-timing in signed conversations: coordinating stroke-to-stroke turn boundaries by de Vos, Connie, Torreira, Francisco, Levinson, Stephen C

“…In spoken interactions, interlocutors carefully plan, and time their utterances, minimizing gaps and overlaps between consecutive turns. Cross-linguistic…”
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Durational Evidence That Tokyo Japanese Vowel Devoicing Is Not Gradient Reduction by Tanner, James, Sonderegger, Morgan, Torreira, Francisco

“…A central question in the Japanese high vowel devoicing literature concerns whether vowels are devoiced through a categorical process or via gradient…”
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The effects of processing and sequence organization on the timing of turn taking: a corpus study by Roberts, Seán G, Torreira, Francisco, Levinson, Stephen C

“…The timing of turn taking in conversation is extremely rapid given the cognitive demands on speakers to comprehend, plan and execute turns in real time…”
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Breathing for answering: the time course of response planning in conversation by Torreira, Francisco, Bögels, Sara, Levinson, Stephen C

“…We investigate the timing of pre-answer inbreaths in order to shed light on the time course of response planning and execution in conversational turn-taking…”
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Phonological mediation effects in imitation of the Mandarin flat-falling tonal continua by Zhang, Wei, Clayards, Meghan, Torreira, Francisco

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Investigating the nature of aspirated stops in Western Andalusian Spanish by Torreira, Francisco

“…In Western Andalusian Spanish (WAS), [h + voiceless stop] clusters are realized as long pre- and postaspirated stops. This study investigates if a new class of…”
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Vocal reaction times to speech offsets: Implications for processing models of conversational turn-taking by Torreira, Francisco, Bögels, Sara

“…•Vocal reactions to the offset of speech-like stimuli are longer than reactions to stimulus onsets.•Speaking latencies decrease as prosodic cues appear further…”
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Turn-end Estimation in Conversational Turn-taking: The Roles of Context and Prosody by Bögels, Sara, Torreira, Francisco

“…This study investigated the role of contextual and prosodic information in turn-end estimation by means of a button-press task. We presented participants with…”
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Weakening of intervocalic /s/ in the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish by Torreira, Francisco, Ernestus, Mirjam

“…This study describes the weakening of intervocalic /s/ in the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish and investigates the role of several potential conditioning…”
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Melodic constructions in Spanish: Metrical structure determines the association properties of intonational tones by Torreira, Francisco, Grice, Martine

“…This paper explores phrase-length-related alternations in the association of tones to positions in metrical structure in two melodic constructions of Spanish…”
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Using Functional Data Analysis for investigating multidimensional dynamic phonetic contrasts by Gubian, Michele, Torreira, Francisco, Boves, Lou

“…The study of phonetic contrasts and related phenomena, e.g. inter- and intra-speaker variability, often requires to analyse data in the form of measured time…”
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Perception of word boundaries in spontaneous speech by Tao, Jiaer, Torreira, Francisco, Clayards, Meghan

“…Studies of lab speech have identified several acoustic variables that listeners use to identify word boundaries (e.g. allophonic variation, segment duration),…”
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Speaking to a common tune: Between-speaker convergence in voice fundamental frequency in a joint speech production task by Aubanel, Vincent, Nguyen, Noël

“…Recent research on speech communication has revealed a tendency for speakers to imitate at least some of the characteristics of their interlocutor's speech…”
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The Nijmegen Corpus of Casual French by Torreira, Francisco, Adda-Decker, Martine, Ernestus, Mirjam

“…This article describes the preparation, recording and orthographic transcription of a new speech corpus, the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual French (NCCFr). The…”
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Vowel elision in casual French: The case of vowel /e/ in the word c’était by Torreira, Francisco, Ernestus, Mirjam

“…This study investigates the reduction of vowel /e/ in the French word c’était / set ε / ‘it was’. This reduction phenomenon appeared to be highly frequent, as…”
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