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Identifying a temporal threshold of tolerance for silent gaps after requests

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: This study addresses whether there is a threshold, some particular length of silent gap between two speakers' turns, at which negative social attributions emerge. The effect of such inter-turn silence was tested by constructing dialogues where responses to requests were identical and affirmative so that study participants' (n = 380) ratings about "willingness" would be colored by lag time, not semantics. 100 ms intervals between 200 and 1200 ms were tested in a between groups design. There was a notable drop-off in ratings at 600 ms and a statistically significant difference in ratings between 700 and 800 ms.

Source: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

DOI: 10.1121/1.4802900

Authors: Felicia Roberts, Alexander L. Francis

Institution: Purdue University West Lafayette

Language: English

Topic: Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Purdue University, Max Planck Instituut voor Psycholinguïstiek

OpenAlex ID: W2014994704