Fluent conversation requires temporal organization between conversational exchanges. By
performing a systematic review and Bayesian multi‐level meta‐analysis, we map the …

Individual differences in children's social communication have been shown to mediate the
relationship between poor vocabulary or grammar and behavioural difficulties. Moreover …

It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

Traditional grammar and current theoretical approaches towards modelling grammatical
knowledge ignore language in interaction: that is, words such as huh, eh, yup or yessssss …

This chapter traces the burgeoning field of developmental gesture studies and examines the
emergence of gestures as visible utterances, adult responses to children's gestures, and the …

Young children answer questions with longer delays than adults do, and they don't reach
typical adult response times until several years later. We hypothesized that this prolonged …

Conversation is the natural setting for language learning and use, and a key property of
conversation is the smooth taking of turns. In adult conversations, delays between turns are …

Objectives: The primary objective of the study was to examine the occurrence and temporal
structure of vocal turn-taking during spontaneous interactions between mothers and their …

As conversation is the most important way of using language, linguists and psychologists
should combine forces to investigate how interlocutors deal with the cognitive demands …

This paper examines the reflections of a cohort of Australian children who lived through the
2020–21 COVID‐19 pandemic and experienced being in 'lockdown'; a state of largely being …