title: Speaker transfer in children's peer conversation: completing communication-aid-mediated contributions.
abstract: Managing the exchange of speakers from one person to another effectively is a key issue for participants in everyday conversational interaction. Speakers use a range of resources to indicate, in advance, when their turn will come to an end, and listeners attend to such signals in order to know when they might legitimately speak. Using the principles and findings from conversation analysis, this paper examines features of speaker transfer in a conversation between a boy with cerebral palsy who has been provided with a voice-output communication aid (VOCA), and a peer without physical or communication difficulties. Specifically, the analysis focuses on turn exchange, where a VOCA-mediated contribution approach completion, and the child without communication needs is due to speak next.
authors.affiliation: Developmental Science Department, University College London, UK. m.clarke@ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bloch
authors.forename: Ray
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
mesh_terms: D002547:Cerebral Palsy; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D003143:Communication Devices for People with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D004401:Dysarthria / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014741:Video Recording