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conversational strategies, like overlaps and cases where a turn transition is achieved through the use of ‘explicit’ resources such as
instructions to stop and requests to give brief answers. We show that the collaborative production of such long answers is affected by the
remote placement of the interpreter, and that recurrent trouble in the management of turn transitions between the asylum seeker and the
interpreter during extended narratives may be detrimental to the asylum seeker’s case.
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