A Corpus Study on the Difference of Turn-Taking in Online Audio, Online Video, and Face-to-Face Conversation

In this study, we conducted a corpus analysis of face-to-face, online audio, and online video conversations collected from the internet. The fluency of turn-taking in face-to-face conversations differed from that of online audio and video conversations. Namely, the timing of turn-taking was shorter and with more overlaps in face-to-face conversations compared with online audio and video conversations. This can be explained by the limited ability of online communication modes to transmit non-verbal cues and network latency. In addition, our study could not completely exclude the effect of formality of conversation. The present findings have implications for the rules of turn-taking in human online conversations, in that the traditional rule of no-gap-no-overlap may not be fully applicable to online conversations.PMID:37317824 | DOI:10.1177/00238309231176768
Source: Language and Speech - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Source Type: research