Turn Taking and The Incredible Things We Do In Conversation
The article above discusses the amazing way conversation takes place and how we learn to do this from a young age. Communication skills (e.g turn taking) are important for our survival as are ability to put forward what we want keeps us alive and expressing our opinions enable us to do good for the world.
In the article it talks about timings in our conversations and our natural human response ; "On average, each turn lasts for around 2 seconds, and the typical gap between them is just 200 milliseconds—barely enough time to utter a syllable." It is said that turn taking is our fastest human response and while the other person is talking we sub-consciously are already thinking of our reply. "For a short clause, that processing time rises to 1500 milliseconds. This means that we have to start planning our responses in the middle of a partner’s turn, using everything from grammatical cues to changes in pitch."
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