A Phonetic Investigation of Turn-taking Cues at Multiple Unit-levels in Japanese Conversation
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In this paper, we investigate acoustic, prosodic, and syntactic cues at multiple unit-levels for turntaking in Japanese conversation, proposing an incremental and hierarchical model of turnprojection, which is applicable to both overlapping and non-overlapping speech. Based on a quantitative analysis of Japanese three-party conversations, we identify several turn-taking cues that are located earlier in the utterance than utterance-final position. We discuss similarities and differences between overlapping and nonoverlapping turn-transitions.
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