The human faculty to speak has evolved, so has been argued, for communicating with
others and for engaging in social interactions. Hence the human cognitive system should be …

Human communicative interaction is characterized by rapid and precise turn-taking. This is
achieved by an intricate system that has been elucidated in the field of conversation …

When people feel connected they tend to respond quickly in conversation, creating short
gaps between turns. But are long gaps always a sign that things have gone awry? We …

There is a long-standing tradition to assess hearing-aid benefits using lab-based speech
intelligibility tests. Towards a more everyday-like scenario, the current study investigated the …

Many syntactic theories posit a fundamental structural difference between intransitive verbs
with agentive subjects (unergative verbs) and those with theme subjects (unaccusative …

The organisation of who speaks when in conversation is perhaps the most fundamental
aspect of human communication. Research on a wide variety of groups of speakers has …

Corpus analyses have shown that turn-taking in conversation is much faster than laboratory
studies of speech planning would predict. To explain fast turn-taking, Levinson and Torreira …

During conversation, there is often little gap between interlocutors' utterances. In two pairs of
experiments, we manipulated the content predictability of yes/no questions to investigate …

In conversation, turn-taking is usually fluid, with next speakers taking their turn right after the
end of the previous turn. Most, but not all, previous studies show that next speakers start to …

Planning to speak is a challenge for the brain, and the challenge varies between and within
languages. Yet, little is known about how neural processes react to these variable …