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title: "Tanya Stivers"
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entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Tanya Stivers"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Turn-taking (conversation analysis)","Stephen C. Levinson","Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics","conversation analysis","voice AI latency budget"]
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Conversation analyst and lead author of Stivers et al. (2009, *PNAS*), the cross-linguistic study of question-response timing across ten languages that supplies the vault's primary source for the ~200ms human turn-taking window — the figure a Tier-3 vendor claim had been carrying unsourced in [[claim-voice-ai-sub-second-conversational-latency-budget]]. At the time of the 2009 paper she was affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, working alongside senior co-author Stephen C. Levinson.

## References
- [[claim-stivers-2009-cross-linguistic-turn-taking-gap-208ms-mean]]
- Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-29-what-are-the-primary-sourced-thresholds-for-human.md