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  • Natural conversations exhibit rapid turn transitions, contrasting with longer speech onset latencies in laboratory settings.
  • Factors influencing speech production differ between conversational and experimental environments, with turn competition being a key differentiator.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of turn competition on measured turn transition times in conversations.
  • To compare turn transition times in dyadic versus triadic conversations and analyze the influence of group size.

Main Methods:

  • Computer simulations were used to model the effect of recording only the fastest responses in a multi-participant setting.
  • Quantitative corpus analysis compared turn transition times in dyadic and triadic conversations.

Main Results:

  • Simulations demonstrated that recording only the fastest responses significantly reduces mean response times.
  • Triadic conversations showed shorter turn transition times than dyadic conversations for non-question-response turns, indicating increased competition.

Conclusions:

  • Turn transition times in conversational analysis are significantly influenced by group size and the type of transition.
  • The statistical artifact of faster responses being preferentially recorded in competitive multi-party settings can shorten observed turn transition times.