Fundamentals of Linguistic Interaction

NASSLLI 2016 @ Rutgers

Instructor: Raquel Fernández, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam

Coordinates: 10:45 - 12:15, Murray building, room 114

This course will offer an introduction to a range of prominent phenomena in dialogue interaction, paying attention to both seminal work and recent research in computational linguistics and cognitive science. There are no strict requirements to follow the course, although I'll assume some background in linguistics.

Date	Topic	Materials
11 July	Timing coordination: turn taking. SLIDES	Sacks et al. (1974), A simplest systematics for the organisation of turn-taking for conversation Stivers et al. (2009), Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation Heldner and Edlund (2010), Pauses, gaps and overlaps in conversations Research topic Frontiers in Psychology (2015): Turn-taking in human communicative interaction
12 July	Some more topics related to timing coordination. Then moving on to meaning coordination: dialogue acts. SLIDES	Jurafsky (2004), Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics DAMSL annotation manual Chris Potts' distribution of the Switchboard dialogue act corpus
13 July	Meaning coordination: the grounding process. SLIDES	Herb Clark's publications' page with links to PDFs for most papers. Brennan & Clark (1996) Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 22:1482-1493. Video on automatic feedback generation without language understanding, by Gabriel Skantze.
14 July	Style coordination: alignment and adaptation. SLIDES
15 July	Language acquisition in interaction. SLIDES