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  2. Adjacency pairs - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an adjacency pair is an example of conversational turn-taking.An adjacency pair is composed of two utterances by two speakers, one after the other. The speaking of the first utterance (the first-pair part, or the first turn) provokes a responding utterance (the second-pair part, or the second turn). [1]

  3. Turn-taking - Wikipedia

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    Conditional access to the turn implies that the current speaker yields their turn or invites another speaker to interject in the conversation, usually as collaborative effort. [15] Another example that Schegloff illustrates is a speaker invited another to speak out of turn when finding a word in a word search.

  4. Transition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A transition or linking word is a word or phrase that shows the relationship between paragraphs or sections of a text or speech. [1] Transitions provide greater cohesion by making it more explicit or signaling how ideas relate to one another. [1] Transitions are, in fact, "bridges" that "carry a reader from section to section". [1] Transitions ...

  5. Turn construction unit - Wikipedia

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    a. If the current speaker selects a next one to speak at the end of current TCU (by name, gaze or contextual aspects of what is said), the selected speaker has the right and obligation to speak next. b. If the current speaker does not select a next speaker, other potential speakers have the right to self-select (the first starter gets the turn) c.

  6. Language transfer - Wikipedia

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    Blackboard in Harvard classroom shows students' efforts at placing the ü and acute accent diacritics used in Spanish orthography.. When the relevant unit or structure of both languages is the same, linguistic interference can result in correct language production called positive transfer: here, the "correct" meaning is in line with most native speakers' notions of acceptability. [3]

  7. Speech recognition - Wikipedia

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    Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition or speech-to-text (STT).

  8. Language production - Wikipedia

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    Preservation: The word retains characteristics of a word said previously in an utterance. target: red wagon produced: red ragon. Blending: More than one word is being considered in the lexicon and the two intended items "blend" into a single item. target: shout/yell produced: shell. Addition: Additional of linguistics material added to the word.

  9. Code-switching - Wikipedia

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    [16] [17] [18] Speakers form and establish a pidgin language when two or more speakers who do not speak a common language form an intermediate, third language. Speakers also practice code-switching when they are each fluent in both languages. Code-mixing is a thematically related term, but the usage of the terms code-switching and code-mixing ...