Patrizia Paggio
University of Malta, Malta / University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Alexandra Vella
University of Malta, Malta
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Published in: Proceedings from the 1st European Symposium on Multimodal Communication University of Malta; Valletta; October 17-18; 2013
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 101:7, p. 55-64
NEALT Proceedings Series 21:7, p. 55-64
Published: 2014-06-24
ISBN: 978-91-7519-266-6
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This paper deals with overlaps in spoken Maltese. Overlaps are studied in two different corpora recorded in different communicative situations. One is a multimodal corpus involving first acquaintance conversations; the other consists of Map Task dialogues. The results show that the number of overlaps is larger in the free conversations; where it varies depending on specific aspects of the interaction. They also show that overlaps in the MapTask dialogues tend to be longer; serving the function of establishing common understanding to achieve optimal task completion.
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