Turn-taking in human communication

EU-funded researchers examine the origins and implications of language processing to better understand the interactive foundations of language.

Languages, regardless of level, vary in terms of sounds, structure of words and the way words are put together to make grammatical sentences. Yet despite these clear differences, there is an underlying uniformity to the systematic ways language is used. This is most clearly seen in our informal conversations, where we take short, two second turns speaking with very small gaps in-between.

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