Temporal Inferences in Conversation

Temporal Inferences in Conversation

Within this article, I explore how coproductions (expansions made by a second speaker upon a previous utterance) and questions regarding prior utterances work to verbalize inferences regarding the temporal information in spoken German conversation. While questions regarding prior utterances and coproductions are traditionally understood to have different communicative functions (signaling under...

Temporal Inferences in Medical Texts

The objectives of this paper are twofold, whereby the computer p r o g r a m i s meant to be a particular implementation of a general natural Language [NL] p r o e e s s i n ~ s y s t e m [NI,PSI w h i c h could be used for different domains. The first obiective is to provide a theory for processing temporal information contained i n a well-structured, technical text. The second obiective is to...

Temporal distribution of laughter in conversation

Laughter, as component of social interaction, has attracted interest within conversational analysis [2, 5]. While laughter can be expressed in different contexts, voluntary or involuntary [6], and diverse in function and degree of functionality [2], it is not random. We study timing of laughter during conversation in relation to topic changes: whether recurrent patterns in laughter distribution...

Synchrony and swing in conversation: coordination, temporal dynamics, and communication

Person theories: their temporal stability and relation to intertrait inferences.

This article tests whether individual differences in inferring one trait from another (intertrait inferences) can be linked to lay beliefs about the malleability of personality (person theories). It finds that holding the belief that personality is malleable (incremental theory) rather than fixed (entity theory) at the time of inferences is associated with less extreme inferences involving sema...