@article{howes-etal-2011-incrementality,
    title = "On Incrementality in Dialogue: Evidence from Compound Contributions",
    author = "Howes, Christine  and
      Purver, Matthew  and
      Healey, Patrick G. T.  and
      Mills, Gregory J.  and
      Gregoromichelaki, Eleni",
    editor = "Schlangen, David  and
      Rieser, Hannes  and
      Crocker, Matthew W.",
    journal = "Dialogue {\&} Discourse",
    volume = "2",
    year = "2011",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-dnd/2011.dnd-2.3/",
    doi = "10.5087/dad.2011.111",
    pages = "279--311",
    abstract = "Spoken contributions in dialogue often continue or complete earlier contributions by either the same or a different speaker. These compound contributions (CCs) thus provide a natural context for investigations of incremental processing in dialogue.We present a corpus study which confirms that CCs are a key dialogue phenomenon: almost 20{\%} of contributions fit our general definition of CCs, with nearly 3{\%} being the cross-person case most often studied. The results suggest that processing is word-by-word incremental, as splits can occur within syntactic `constituents'; however, some systematic differences between same- and cross-person cases indicate important dialogue-specific pragmatic effects. An experimental study then investigates these effects by artificially introducing CCs into multi-party text dialogue. Results suggest that CCs affect people{'}s expectations about who will speak next and whether other participants have formed a coalition or `party'.Together, these studies suggest that CCs require an incremental processing mechanism that can provide a resource for constructing linguistic constituents that span multiple contributions and multiple participants. They also suggest the need to model higher-level dialogue units that have consequences for the organization of turn-taking and for the development of a shared context."
}