The Conversational Discourse Unit: Identification and Its Role in Conversational Turn-taking Management

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2023-11-04 DOI:10.5210/dad.2023.203

Junfei Hu, Liesbeth Degand

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Abstract

This study investigates how discourse segmentation and turn-taking interact. Mapping syntactic, prosodic and pragmatic units, five types of conversational discourse units (CDU) were identified. Based on this segmentation, associations were examined between the syntactic, prosodic and pragmatic boundaries and turn-taking, as well as the transition speed after each type of CDU. Results show: 1) The relationships between the three linguistic boundaries and the occurrence of turn-taking were significant, and the association was the strongest for the pragmatic boundaries; it was weaker for prosodic boundaries and the weakest for the syntactic boundaries. 2) The type of CDU influenced the transition speed, with the pragmatic-syntax-bound CDU being fastest. The study highlights the importance of meaning-connection and earlier emergence of the utterance gist in timing turn-taking.

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会话话语单元:识别及其在会话转向管理中的作用

本研究探讨语篇分词与轮向的互动关系。通过对句法、韵律和语用单位的映射，确定了会话话语单位的五种类型。在此基础上，研究了句法、韵律和语用边界与轮转之间的联系，以及每种CDU之后的过渡速度。结果表明:1)三种语言边界与轮替发生的关系显著，其中语用边界的关联最强;韵律边界弱，句法边界弱。2) CDU的类型影响转换速度，其中语用语法绑定的CDU转换速度最快。该研究强调了意义连接和话语主旨在时间转换中的早期出现的重要性。

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Dialogue and Discourse Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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1.90

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0.00%

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审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： D&D seeks previously unpublished, high quality articles on the analysis of discourse and dialogue that contain -experimental and/or theoretical studies related to the construction, representation, and maintenance of (linguistic) context -linguistic analysis of phenomena characteristic of discourse and/or dialogue (including, but not limited to: reference and anaphora, presupposition and accommodation, topicality and salience, implicature, ---discourse structure and rhetorical relations, discourse markers and particles, the semantics and -pragmatics of dialogue acts, questions, imperatives, non-sentential utterances, intonation, and meta--communicative phenomena such as repair and grounding) -experimental and/or theoretical studies of agents'' information states and their dynamics in conversational interaction -new analytical frameworks that advance theoretical studies of discourse and dialogue -research on systems performing coreference resolution, discourse structure parsing, event and temporal -structure, and reference resolution in multimodal communication -experimental and/or theoretical results yielding new insight into non-linguistic interaction in -communication -work on natural language understanding (including spoken language understanding), dialogue management, -reasoning, and natural language generation (including text-to-speech) in dialogue systems -work related to the design and engineering of dialogue systems (including, but not limited to: -evaluation, usability design and testing, rapid application deployment, embodied agents, affect detection, -mixed-initiative, adaptation, and user modeling). -extremely well-written surveys of existing work. Highest priority is given to research reports that are specifically written for a multidisciplinary audience. The audience is primarily researchers on discourse and dialogue and its associated fields, including computer scientists, linguists, psychologists, philosophers, roboticists, sociologists.