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isyasad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

This is called “aizuchi” in Japanese or “backchanneling” more generally and as hard as I try I CANNOT find this paper that I read while studying Japanese linguistics but I remember there was a frequency analysis of time between backchanneling in both English and Japanese in both male and female listeners, and the difference was huge. Something like, female Japanese speakers backchannel every 2 seconds while male English speakers backchannel every 30 seconds.

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