Pause length variations within and between speakers over time

In the current study, intra-turn pause variation has been investigated within and between speakers in dialogues. Results show that there is a tendency for different speakers to prefer different pause locations within turns. There was further a significant correlation in the majority of the dialogues between how the median lengths of pauses varied for the speakers over the course of the dialogues. The conclusion that can be drawn from this study is that speakers seem to show individual patterns as to where they prefer to pause within turns, but pause length variations tend to be correlated between speakers in the same dialogue.