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Turn-taking in Applicant

Task B – Our answer

The difference between an average of 7 and 8.84 words per turn may not seem a lot at first sight, but in proportional terms it represents an increase in Piffs’ speech compared with Lamb’s of roughly 25%. Indeed, if we just look at the total number of words for each character (thus ignoring the difference in the number of turns between the two characters) the increase is even greater - around 45%. Whichever measure we use here, we have another turn-taking indicator of the dominance of Piffs over Lamb in the conversation.

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