In a smooth turn-taking situation, one participant holds the turn and when s/he finishes to express her/his contribution, the turn is allocated to another participant. Such transfer happens in a very smooth way, without pause or strong overlapping between signers, as shown in the example below.
A: yesterday park ix1 dog ixCL(curved open V): ‘be_at’++ ix1 see
B: maybe brown hair_all ix1 see done identical ix1 see done
‘Yesterday, in the park I saw a few dogs.’ ‘Maybe I saw the same brown dogs.’
What follows is the schematic representation of a smooth turn-taking.
A: sign sign sign
B: sign sign sign