Inter-turn pauses in the conversations of three-year-old children and their parents

• Yamashita Yuko

  Faculty of Design, Kyushu University

Abstract

The present study is aimed to explore the pause durations during turn・taking (i.e., inter-turn pauses) in child-adult conversation. Participants were three dyads each of typically developing 3-year-old toddlers and their parents from Japanese and English-speaking families. Speech was recorded in a quiet room in each child's home for about 2 hours per month. Conversational speech between the parent and child was extracted from each audio file. Pauses ranging from 0.1 up to 3 s, at the turn transition from the current speaker to the next, were extracted. The results showed that the average durations of inter-turn pauses at turn transition from child to parent and from parent to child were less than 1 s, regardless of language background. The results suggest that children more or less utilize pauses during turn-taking, although the pause duration of children was relatively longer than that of adults.

Journal

• 言語科学

  言語科学 51 9-15, 2016-03-31

  The Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University

Details

• CRID: 1390579599241904384
• NII Article ID: 40020804788
• NII Book ID: AN00077545
• DOI: 10.15017/7153220
• HANDLE: 2324/7153220
• NDL BIB ID: 027255627
• ISSN: 02891891
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I027255627
• Text Lang: en
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• Abstract License Flag: Allowed