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Languages, Volume 8, Issue 1

2023 March - 90 articles

Cover Story: Speech pauses between conversational turns are crucial for assessing conversation partners’ cognitive states; for example, speakers making longer pauses are regarded as less willing to grant requests. We tested in a rating experiment if the interpretation of pause length was mediated by the accent of speakers, in particular native vs. non-native accents. Participants judged non-native speakers to be equally willing to grant requests, irrespective of their inter-turn pause lengths, whereas native speakers making long pauses were regarded as less willing than those making short pauses. This indicates that listeners interpret long pauses by non-natives as the result of prolonged cognitive processing needed for planning an answer in a non-native language rather than of a lack of willingness. View this paper
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