Why is conversation so easy?

By Simon Garrod, Martin J. Pickering. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004

742 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Cultural Studies

1. Bruno Galantucci
2. Janet Beavin Bavelas
3. J. Gerwing
4. Josh C. Bongard
5. Rolf Pfeifer
6. Rick Dale
7. Martin J. Pickering
8. Michael J. Spivey

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Rick Dale
2. Bruno Galantucci
3. J. Gerwing
4. Janet Beavin Bavelas
5. J. V. Hell
6. Ton Dijkstra
7. Rolf Pfeifer
8. Josh C. Bongard

In Language and Linguistics

1. Bruno Galantucci
2. Rick Dale
3. ChrisD . Frith
4. J. Gerwing
5. Janet Beavin Bavelas
6. Martin J. Pickering
7. J. V. Hell
8. Ton Dijkstra

Citations in the corpus

• Syntactic alignment and shared word order in code-switched sentence production: Evidence from bilingual monologue and dialogue (2010, background): “This alignment of linguistic behavior not only aids mutual understanding but also facilitates language production, as it enables speakers to make ‘shortcuts’ in their own language production process (Garrod & Pickering, 2004; Schober, 2006).”
• Prosodic and temporal features for language modeling for dialog (2012, background): “…dialog are a topic of great scientific interest: many researchers have pointed out that dialog behaviors offer 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).”
• Memory and language skills in simultaneous interpreters: The role of expertise and language proficiency (2006, background): “In normal dialogue, some planning of speech during listening already takes place since people start their response a fraction of a second before their partner finishes speaking (Garrod & Pickering, 2004).”
• Unraveling the Dyad: Using Recurrence Analysis to Explore Patterns of Syntactic Coordination Between Children and Caregivers in Conversation (2006, background): “Recently, Garrod and Pickering (2004) have argued that dialogue is such a fluid and seemingly simple task for us because it is steeped in coordination mechanisms found in many cognitive processes during social interaction.”
• Converging toward a common speech code: imitative and perceptuo-motor recalibration processes in speech production (2013, positive): “…effect as so-called alignment mechanisms, which are assumed to apply to linguistic representations at different levels between partners, in order for these partners to have a better joint understanding of what they are talking about (Garrod and Pickering, 2004; Pickering and Garrod, 2004, 2007).”
• Emergence of Linguistic Communication from Referential Games with Symbolic and Pixel Input (2018, background): “During conversation, communication allows interlocutors to achieve interactive conceptual alignment (Garrod & Pickering, 2004).”
• Choosing words in computer-generated weather forecasts (2005, background): “Psycholinguists have shown that participants in dialogues align the language that they use with each other [9,10]; that is, dialogue participants will start using similar words, syntactic structures, and so forth.”
• How the body shapes the way we think - a new view on intelligence (2006, methodology): “This idea of conversation as a scaffolding tool is inspired by Simon Garrod’s paper, “Why Is Conversation So Easy?” (Garrod and Pickering, 2004), in which he argues that the thought processes of both participants are mutually aligned and supported by conversation, thus making it much easier than, fo”
• Language as a Tool for Interacting Minds (2010, background): “The process properties of language relate to the dynamic nature of the subtle online coordination and multi-level alignments especially characteristic for dialogical encounters (Clark, 1996; Garrod and Pickering, 2004).”
• Joint action: bodies and minds moving together. (2006, background): “Verbal communication is a powerful means to solve coordination problemsthatariseinjointaction[2, 3 ].Couldlanguagehaveevolvedas”
• Joint Action, Interactive Alignment, and Dialog (2009, background): “As pointed out by Garrod and Pickering (2004), there is a sense in which dialog ought to be extremely difficult, in comparison to monolog.”
• Gesturing on the telephone: Independent effects of dialogue and visibility. (2008, methodology): “Several scholars have proposed that, in contrast to other formats (e.g., written text, telephone, or email), face-to-face dialogue is the basic or fundamental setting for language use (e.g., Bavelas & Chovil, 2000, 2006; Bavelas, Hutchinson, Kenwood, & Matheson, 1997; Clark, 1996; Fillmore, 1981; G”
• Conversation and Coordinative Structures (2009, background): “One explanation for behavioral coordination in the context of conversation is that it exists to align cognitive representations (e.g., Garrod & Pickering, 2004; Pickering & Garrod, 2004; Sebanz et al., 2006).”
• Structural priming: a critical review. (2008, background): “Structural priming is an important example of such a tacit strategy: Speakers generally are not aware that they repeat the structural features of their interlocutors’ utterances, but they do, and this likely facilitates alignment between interlocutors (Pickering & Garrod, 2004).”
• Interpersonal Synchrony: A Survey of Evaluation Methods across Disciplines (2012, background): “Moreover, several concepts are closely related to synchrony or are prerequisites of synchrony, such as turn-taking and mutual attention.”