Signals of monologue continuation/completion: speech and gesture
... speech and gesticulation that speakers use to signal either their intention to continue a monologue or, conversely, the approaching completion of the monologue and their readiness to yield the floor to an interlocutor. The study is based on the corpus Russian Pear Chats and Stories (RUPEX), which is equipped with detailed multichannel annotation. Each session included in the corpus contains a monologic stage, during which a story is narrated, followed by an interactive conversation. This design makes the corpus particularly ...
