TY - JOUR
T1 - The Montclair Map Task
T2 - Balance, Efficacy, and Efficiency in Conversational Interaction
AU - Pardo, Jennifer S.
AU - Urmanche, Adelya
AU - Gash, Hannah
AU - Wiener, Jaclyn
AU - Mason, Nicholas
AU - Wilman, Sherilyn
AU - Francis, Keagan
AU - Decker, Alexa
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - This paper introduces a conversational speech corpus collected during the completion of a map-matching task that is available for research purposes via the Montclair State University Digital Commons Data Repository. The Montclair Map Task is a new, role-neutral conversational task that involves paired iconic maps with labeled landmarks and a path drawn from a start point, around various landmarks, to a finish mark. One advantage of this task-oriented corpus is the ability to derive independent objective measures of task performance for both members of a conversational pair that can be related to aspects of communicative style. A total of 96 native English speakers completed the task in 16 same-sex female, 16 same-sex male, and 16 mixed-sex pairings. Conversations averaged 32 minutes in duration, yielding approximately 217,000 words. The transcription protocol delineates events such as speaking turns, inter-turn intervals, landmark phrases, fillers, pauses, overlaps, and backchannels, making this corpus a useful tool for investigating dynamics of conversational interaction. Analyses of communication efficacy and efficiency reveal that male pairs of talkers were less efficient than female and mixed-sex pairs with respect to partner map-matching task performance.
AB - This paper introduces a conversational speech corpus collected during the completion of a map-matching task that is available for research purposes via the Montclair State University Digital Commons Data Repository. The Montclair Map Task is a new, role-neutral conversational task that involves paired iconic maps with labeled landmarks and a path drawn from a start point, around various landmarks, to a finish mark. One advantage of this task-oriented corpus is the ability to derive independent objective measures of task performance for both members of a conversational pair that can be related to aspects of communicative style. A total of 96 native English speakers completed the task in 16 same-sex female, 16 same-sex male, and 16 mixed-sex pairings. Conversations averaged 32 minutes in duration, yielding approximately 217,000 words. The transcription protocol delineates events such as speaking turns, inter-turn intervals, landmark phrases, fillers, pauses, overlaps, and backchannels, making this corpus a useful tool for investigating dynamics of conversational interaction. Analyses of communication efficacy and efficiency reveal that male pairs of talkers were less efficient than female and mixed-sex pairs with respect to partner map-matching task performance.
KW - Conversational interaction
KW - communication efficiency
KW - conversation corpus
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047907329&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0023830918775435
DO - 10.1177/0023830918775435
M3 - Article
C2 - 29857788
AN - SCOPUS:85047907329
VL - 62
SP - 378
EP - 398
JO - Language and Speech
JF - Language and Speech
SN - 0023-8309
IS - 2
ER -