What are the most important words? On average, one in every seven utterances in any conversation features small words like ‘m-hmm’, ‘oh’, or ‘huh?’. These humble words streamline our conversations, enable complex language, and help children grasp the fundamentals of the language system. They are, to use a metaphor developed in this project, “words below the waterline”: easily overlooked technologies that help keep language balanced, agile, and easy to steer while in motion. In...| Elementary particles of conversation
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A fundamental fact about human minds is that they are never truly alone: all minds are steeped in situated interaction. In this manifesto we make the case for putting interaction at the heart of cognition. This represents a figure-ground reversal for the cognitive sciences, which traditionally have focused on single minds. Read our piece in Cognitive Science, or head directly to the PDF.| Mark Dingemanse
Interactive repair is like a searchlight that can sweep through the syntactic structures of turns at talk. In some of my presentations I’ve used this animation showing the ways in which repair formats zoom in on different parts of clausal structure. Every language user is exposed to repair from very early on, and so it is one of the key processes through which we are able to pick up the intricacies of grammatical structure.| Mark Dingemanse
Panel A illustrates the notion of structure mapping. A sound wave representing the spoken Korean word tuˈgɯndugɯn ‘heartbeat’ is compared to another sound wave showing an actual heartbeat. Nodes and edges point out linkages across repeated structures for both. There are at least three levels and structures at which mappings can be made, yielding a cumulative iconicity score of 3.| Mark Dingemanse
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