overall terminology

• utterances and adjacencey pairs

  when we speak in links one after the other. we measure the language of a conversation in utterances instead of sentences
• false starts

  A speaker changes their wording within the 1st three or four words in an utterance
• verbal fillers

  “like” “sort of” “kind of”
• non verbal fillers

  “erm” “aha” “mhm” “ugh”
• timed pauses and micro pauses

  timed pauses: pause for 1 second or more

  micro pause: pause of less than a second
• turn taking

  speak in turns during a conversation. wait for their turn and don’t interrupt or overlap another speaker
• repair

  when speakers fix an utterance that needs changing “yep all done…well not quite all”
• broken construction

  like a false start but it happens further on in an utterance, usually in the middle
• paralinguistics

  how we refer to body language, facial expressions, hand and head movements that people make when they speak