Speech Features

Question 1

backchannelling

Answer 1

making sounds to show interest

Question 2

adjacency pairs

Answer 2

expected pairing of utterance and response

Question 3

discourse markers

Answer 3

phrases that open, close and make links between utterances

Question 4

utterance

Answer 4

unbroken chain of spoken language

Question 5

holding the floor

Answer 5

whoever takes most turns or speaks longest

Question 6

non-fluency features

Answer 6

disruptions to speech

Question 7

fillers

Answer 7

sounds that fill pauses to allow thinking time or to avoid interruption

Question 8

hedging

Answer 8

a means of being non-committal eg i think

Question 9

interruption

Answer 9

disruption of adjacency pair

Question 10

overlap

Answer 10

type of interruption

Question 11

false starts

Answer 11

speaker begins and then begins again

Question 12

hesitation

Answer 12

filling a gap to allow thoughts

Question 13

tag questions

Answer 13

unnecessary questions at end of utterances to include others or seek approval

Question 14

paralinguistic backchannelling

Answer 14

body language showing interest

Question 15

5 purposes of speech

Answer 15

transactional, referential, interactional, phatic, expressive