Publications

Publication details [#1206]

Beattie, Geoffrey W. and P.J. Barnard. 1979. The temporal structure of natural telephone conversations: directory enquiry calls. Linguistics 17 (3-4) : 213–229.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

telephone conversation | turn-taking

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

The management of speaker-switching, as measured by the temporal characteristics of the transitions, is not impaired in natural telephone conversations in comparison with face-to-face conversation.