Quantitative analyses of Gaze Activity during Silence: Comparison between Native-Language and Second-Language Conversation
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We analyze gazes during silence in multi-party conversation and compare them between conversations among nativelanguage speakers and those among second-language speakers. The duration of gaze during silence shows a significant difference between these two conditions: Gaze during silence is longer in a second-language conversation. Correlation analyses for gazes during silence and the values from questionnaire responses show unique characteristics of second-language free-flowing conversations: Gazes during silence are associated with a negative impression toward the conversation partners. Consequently, the monitoring functions of gazes during silence might affect the partners’ emotional states in such second-language free-flowing conversations. These results suggest that gazes during silence in secondlanguage conversations have different functions from those in native-language conversations.
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