[Koglist] Cognitive Seminar - Lilla Magyari: Prediction of turn-taking in infancy

Dear All, We would like to invite you to the next event from the ELTE Cognitive Seminar series. /Location: PPK, Institue of Psychology, Izabella u. 46, room 101.// //Date: 13.12. 2017. (Wednesday), 15.00/ *Lilla Magyari** **Prediction of turn-taking in infancy* Natural conversations are characterized by giving and taking turns between conversational partners. It is a crucial feature of ever day turn-taking behavior that speakers often start their turn immediately after the other’s turn. Timed responses are achieved by predictions of when a current speaker ends her turn. Some studies have attributed a critical role to linguistic anticipation in the prediction of when a conversational turn is going to be finished, and it has been also shown that early recognition of the intent behind the utterances is also crucial for timed responses. It is intriguing then that a systematic way of turn-taking behavior appears rather early during human development, and it even precedes the development of linguistic competence. In my talk, I would like to present the plan and the design of an eye-tracking study which examines whether prediction of turn-transitions is closely related to semantic predictions and conceptualization as early as 14 months in development.