"Dyadosyncrasy", Idiosyncrasy and Demographic Factors in Turn-Taking

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Main Authors: Cavalcanti, Julio Cesar, Skantze, Gabriel
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author Cavalcanti, Julio Cesar
Skantze, Gabriel
author_facet Cavalcanti, Julio Cesar
Skantze, Gabriel
contents Turn-taking in dialogue follows universal constraints but also varies significantly. This study examines how demographic (sex, age, education) and individual factors shape turn-taking using a large dataset of US English conversations (Fisher). We analyze Transition Floor Offset (TFO) and find notable interspeaker variation. Sex and age have small but significant effects female speakers and older individuals exhibit slightly shorter offsets - while education shows no effect. Lighter topics correlate with shorter TFOs. However, individual differences have a greater impact, driven by a strong idiosyncratic and an even stronger "dyadosyncratic" component - speakers in a dyad resemble each other more than they resemble themselves in different dyads. This suggests that the dyadic relationship and joint activity are the strongest determinants of TFO, outweighing demographic influences.
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spellingShingle "Dyadosyncrasy", Idiosyncrasy and Demographic Factors in Turn-Taking
Cavalcanti, Julio Cesar
Skantze, Gabriel
Audio and Speech Processing
Computation and Language
Turn-taking in dialogue follows universal constraints but also varies significantly. This study examines how demographic (sex, age, education) and individual factors shape turn-taking using a large dataset of US English conversations (Fisher). We analyze Transition Floor Offset (TFO) and find notable interspeaker variation. Sex and age have small but significant effects female speakers and older individuals exhibit slightly shorter offsets - while education shows no effect. Lighter topics correlate with shorter TFOs. However, individual differences have a greater impact, driven by a strong idiosyncratic and an even stronger "dyadosyncratic" component - speakers in a dyad resemble each other more than they resemble themselves in different dyads. This suggests that the dyadic relationship and joint activity are the strongest determinants of TFO, outweighing demographic influences.
title "Dyadosyncrasy", Idiosyncrasy and Demographic Factors in Turn-Taking
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24736