A statistical analysis of on-off patterns in 16 conversations

By P. Brady. 1968

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Generative Spoken Dialogue Language Modeling (2022, background): “It is interesting to note that all models, except DLM-1, manage to capture the empirical fact that intra-turn pauses tend to be longer than between-turn gaps (Brady, 1968; Ten Bosch et al., 2005; Heldner and Edlund, 2010).”
Pauses, gaps and overlaps in conversations (2010, methodology): “Furthermore, we and others have noted that pauses generally tend to have longer durations than gaps (cf. e.g. Brady, 1968; Norwine & Murphy, 1938; ten Bosch et al., 2005).”
Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language (2015, background): “About half a century ago, Brady (1968) reported average gap durations of 345–456 ms and medians from 264 to 347 ms (depending on the threshold used in the automatic detection of speech) in a corpus of sixteen telephone calls between friends in the USA. Task-oriented interaction shows surprisingly si”