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  <Title>Melodic cues to turn-taking in English: evidence from perception</Title>
  <Section position="8" start_page="2" end_page="2" type="concl">
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The results of this study of English turn-taking support the Dutch findings of Caspers (2001), suggesting that while there are no melodic contours which reliably predict a turn change, the high level contour (H* %) creates the strong percept in both languages of a turn continuation, regardless of whether the utterance is syntactically complete or not. Other contours appear to operate at most as secondary cues to turn-taking, with syntactic completion or non-completion having the stronger effect.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> A further observation - that some contours are more amenable to a backchannel response than others - suggests differences between the two languages which may have important cross-cultural implications.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> While the answers to some of these questions may more suitably be sought using other methods, notably corpus-based analysis, we consider that such approaches are complementary to the perceptual evidence reported here.</Paragraph>
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