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.
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