Dr. Zeynep Azar was a PhD student at the Radboud University. She defended her thesis entitled ‘Effect of Language contact on speech and gesture: The case of Turkish-Dutch bilinguals’ on September 28 2020.
Dr. Svetlana Gerakaki was a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. She defended her thesis entitled ‘The moment in between: Planning speech while listening’ on July 8 2020.
Imagine your laptop screen keeps freezing, the video of your friend or colleague suddenly lags and their speech sounds like a robot. You want to talk, but you are not sure about when to start your turn in conversation. There is an awkward silence. The screen turns black.
