The view put forward here is that visual bodily signals play a core role in human
communication and the coordination of minds. Critically, this role goes far beyond referential …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Intelligent agents interacting with humans through conversation (such as a robot, embodied
conversational agent, or chatbot) need to receive feedback from the human to make sure …

In conversation, interlocutors routinely indicate whether something said or done has been
processed and integrated. Such feedback includes backchannels such as 'okay'or 'mhm', the …

Humans readily engage in idle chat and heated discussions and negotiate tough joint
decisions without ever having to think twice about how to keep the conversation grounded in …

Interlocutors adjust their conversational strategies to the specific contextual demands of a
given situation. However, prior studies have yielded conflicting results, making it unclear …

Feedback such as backchannels and clarification requests often occurs subsententially,
demonstrating the incremental nature of grounding in dialogue. However, although such …

In the present paper we address the old question of respiratory planning in speech
production. We recast the problem in terms of speakers' communicative goals and propose …

Backchannels, ie short interjections of the listener, serve important meta-conversational
purposes like signifying attention or indicating agreement. Despite their key role, automatic …

The current study aims to determine the manual backchannel responses that signers use in
Swedish Sign Language discourse by analyzing a subset of the SSL Corpus. The …