The role of prosody and gaze in turn-end anticipation

Chiara Gambi; Torsten Jachmann; Maria Staudte

The role of prosody and gaze in turn-end anticipation

Chiara Gambi, Torsten Jachmann, Maria Staudte

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Abstract

How do listeners integrate multiple sources of information in order to accurately anticipate turn endings? In two experiments using synthesised speech and a virtual agent we examined the role of verbal and gaze information in a turnend anticipation task. Listeners were as good at anticipating the synthesised voice as they were with human speakers (Experiment 1). However, the direction and timing of the agent’s gaze had little influence on their accuracy (Experiment 2). Overall, these findings support the idea that anticipation of turn ends relies primarily, but not exclusively, on verbal content.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-9911967-2-2
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

turn-taking
prediction
pitch
gaze
virtual agent

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