An overview of the question-response system in American English conversation

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35. Interviewing children. (2014, background): “Closed-ended questions are ubiquitous in normal conversations (Stivers 2010).”
Speaker meaning and accountability in interaction (2013, unknown): “However, his subsequent response in turn 3 treats it as a polar (i.e. yes/no) interrogative that is seeking information through offering a candidate answer (Heritage and Raymond, 2012; Pomerantz, 1988; Raymond, 2003; Stivers, 2010).”
The interactional management of claims of insufficient knowledge in English language classrooms (2013, background): “Furthermore, Stivers and Rossano (2010) found that a participant may ‘de-”
Gaze Direction Signals Response Preference in Conversation (2017, result): “Most polar questions in the collection (of 184 cases, see the following) implemented requests for information or confirmation (64.7%, n = 119), in line with Stivers’ (2010) study of naturally occurring conversation in which 62% of polar questions (n = 133) implemented these actions.”
Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language (2015, background): “However, the evidence is that conversation is generally more demanding than that – for example 95% of questions get answers (Stivers, 2010), and particles like well and uhm in English are semiotically loaded and thus not empty buffers (Kendrick and Torreira, 2015), while Roberts et al. (2015)…”