A Corpus-Based Study of Interruptions in Spoken Dialogue
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We examine interruptions in a corpus of spontaneous taskoriented dialogue. We present evidence that interruptions occur at particular places in conversation. They are likely to occur during or after speech with certain acoustic/prosodic properties. We also examine the speech of interruptions themselves and find a number of significant differences between interrupting and non-interrupting turns.
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