Publications

Publication details [#55089]

Roberts, Felicia, Shoji Takano and Piera Margutti. 2011. Judgments Concerning the Valence of Inter-Turn Silence Across Speakers of American English, Italian, and Japanese. Discourse Processes 48 (5) : 331–354.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | evaluation | expectation | silence | turn

Language as a subject

English, American | Italian | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study explores how gaps at inter-turn silences are assessed by speakers of typologically different languages: American English, Italian, and Japanese. This cross-linguistic design enables the testing of both all-purpose and relative aspects in orientation towards silence.