Abstrakt
Speech overlap can be defined as a situation in spoken unprepared conversation when at least two speakers speak simultaneously.Although it may seem that overlaps are chaotic and disorganized, there have been attempts to classify them in previous studies. The aim of our paper is a study of speech overlaps in the recordings between two native speakers of Czech.
However, the age of speakers should be considered as another variable. Therefore, each recording combines the two variables: age and gender (e.g. two same-age women, a 25-year-old man speaking with a 56-year-old woman).
Besides the general comparison of overlap types in the same-sex and cross-sex pairs, we show the differences and correspondences between both gender and age groups. The paper tries to demonstrate advantages as well as disadvantages of both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Spontaneous speech is a complex situation and therefore needs to be analyzed through different methodological approaches. Using the spoken corpus, we can describe the quantitative nature of recorded material and lexicon used by speakers when they speak simultaneously.
At the same time, the recorded situations should also be analyzed with regard to pragmatics and types of overlaps. Our qualitative analysis is based on the conversational analysis and its deeper look on the turn-taking system, transition relevance places and speaker changes.