{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.0264797507788162, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0, 'mean_word_length': 5.913978494623656, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
A Phonetic Investigation of Turn-taking Cues at Multiple Unit-levels in Japanese Conversation

In this paper, we investigate acoustic, prosodic, and syntactic cues at multiple unit-levels for turntaking in Japanese conversation, proposing an incremental and hierarchical model of turnprojection, which is applicable to both overlapping and non-overlapping speech. Based on a quantitative analysis of Japanese three-party conversations, we identify several turn-taking cues that are located earlier in the utterance than utterance-final position. We discuss similarities and differences between overlapping and nonoverlapping turn-transitions.