Examples of monologue

• Consider the stages of speech production that could be facilitated in monologues and in dialogues.

• Late-night talk shows typically feature interviews with celebrities, as well as comic skits and monologues by the hosts, after whom the shows are usually named.

• This explains why coming to a mutual understanding in dialogue is generally much easier than interpreting or producing utterances in monologue.

• Differences in processing may simply be a matter of degree, not of kind, especially given that monologue-like episodes are common even in naturalistic conversation.

• They are mistaken in assuming that we propose a categorical distinction between monologue and dialogue.

• Whereas it is possible that there are differences between monologue and dialogue with respect to judgments of grammaticality, we accept that such differences are unlikely.

• All our recorded examples come from spoken material and are either from dialogues or monologues with a clear audience in mind.

• Indeed, they have commonly assumed that dialogue simply involves chunks of monologue stuck together.