New paper by Natalia Morozova, Sabine Stoll, and Adrian Bangerter on the cross-linguistic convergence of coordination markers in joint tasks
The paper by Natalia Morozova, Sabine Stoll, and Adrian Bangerter brings interactional pressures to the forefront of the mechanisms driving language evolution and demonstrates how the constraints and affordances in joint actions can shape the formal and functional properties of coordination markers (yeah, uh-huh, okay), even across maximally diverse languages.
Morozova, N., Stoll, S. and Bangerter, A. (2025), Language-Invariant Strategies of Navigating Transitions in Joint Activities: Forms and Functions of Coordination Markers. Cognitive Science, 49: e70133. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70133