The dynamics of conversational turn-taking: How does speech timing interact with neural entrainment?

对话轮流的动态：语音计时如何与神经夹带相互作用？

• 批准号: 2399856
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2399856
• 关键词: dynamics; conversational; turn; taking; How

Adult conversationalists usually avoid both extended pauses and unintended overlaps between their turns, but it remains unclear how such fluent turn-taking is coordinated. The project investigates how speech timing influences fluency in conversational turn-taking in two languages with distinct timing patterns, English and Chinese. Through corpus analysis alongside behavioural and neuroscientific experiments, the project empirically tests the longstanding hypothesis that turn-taking fluency is promoted by entrainment of neural activity with the flow of syllables. More generally, it will contribute to a cross-linguistic understanding ofspeech timing in turn-taking, informed by the search for universal principles of perception and behaviour.

成人对话者通常会避免长时间的停顿和轮流之间无意的重叠，但目前尚不清楚如何协调如此流畅的轮流。该项目研究了语音计时如何影响英语和汉语两种具有不同计时模式的语言的会话轮流流畅性。通过语料库分析以及行为和神经科学实验，该项目实证检验了长期以来的假设，即轮流流利性是通过音节流中的神经活动的夹带来促进的。更一般地说，它将有助于对轮流中言语时序的跨语言理解，并通过寻找感知和行为的普遍原则来了解。