On getting a word in edgewise

By V. Yngve. 1970

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Generative Spoken Dialogue Language Modeling (2022, background): “For instance, when overlapping speech occurs it often contains content-neutral verbal information (e.g., "hmm", "yeah") or non-verbal vocalization (e.g., laughter), used to convey a listening attitude (back-chanelling) (Yngve, 1970; Schegloff, 1982).”
Talking Back: "Small" Interactional Response Tokens in Everyday Conversation (2003, background): “Yngve’s well-known paper on ‘getting a word in edgewise’ (Yngve, 1970), introduced the notion of ‘back channel’ which has informed many subsequent studies.”
Prosodic features which cue back-channel responses in English and Japanese (2000, background): “For back-channel feedbackin particular, it has long been thought that there may be a signal that tells a listener that \it'snow appropriate to respond with back-channel feedback", and that this signal would be prosodic,rather than involving meaning (Yngve, 1970).”
The New Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research (2008, background): “Others corroborated these results (Duncan & Fiske 1977; Matarazzo & Wiens 1972; Rosenfeld 1966, 1978; Rosenfeld & Hancks 1980; Yngve 1970).”
Listeners as co-narrators. (2000, background): “Yngve (1970) pointed out that these simple distinctions do not apply to actual conversation: he distinction between having the turn or not is not the same as the traditional distinction between speaker and listener, for it is possible to speak out of turn, and it is even reasonably frequent that a c”
Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning, and Context (2005, unknown): “…(Fraser 1990: 391), for example, includes not only oh, but also ah, aha, ouch, yuk (what Goffman 1978 has called response cries), uh-huh, yeah (what Yngve 1970 calls back channels and Schegloff 1981 calls turn-continuers), hey (a summons, see DuBois 1989), and because (which is an interjection…”
Prosodic and temporal features for language modeling for dialog (2012, background): “a unique window into human cognition and human social interactions (Yngve, 1970; Sacks et al., 1974; Clark, 2002; Pickering and Garrod, 2004; Levinson, 2006; O’Connell and Kowal, 2008).”
Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language (2015, background): “The term ‘turn-taking’ was independently suggested by Yngve (1970) and Duncan (1972).”
Peer–Peer Interaction in a Speaking Test: The Case of the First Certificate in English Examination (2008, methodology): “It is important to point out that even though CA principles and techniques were used, a purist CA methodology was not adopted, and terms that come from different analytic perspectives, such as conversational floor or backchannel ( Yngve, 1970 ), have also been employed.”
Listener Responses as a Collaborative Process: The Role of Gaze (2002, background): “While listening to someone tell a story, listeners regularly make brief appropriate responses (sometimes called “back channels,” after Yngve, 1970 ).”
Turn-taking cues in task-oriented dialogue (2011, methodology): “They show that, in a corpus of spontaneous non-face-to-face dyadic conversations in American English, 48% of backchannels follow a low-pitch region, while only 18% of such regions precede a backchannel response.”
Towards a General, Continuous Model of Turn-taking in Spoken Dialogue using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks (2017, background): “A common phenomenon, that often leads to overlapping speech, is backchannels – short utterances (such as “mhm” or “yeah”), which the listener provides to show continued attention (Yngve, 1970).”
The Mutual Knowledge Problem and Its Consequences for Dispersed Collaboration (2001, background): “Back-channel feedback includes head nods, brief verbalizations such as “yeah” and “m-hmmm,” smiles, and the like (Kraut et al. 1982, Yngve 1970 ).”