Noun
Taking turns; alternating.
(countable) An instance of the one participant taking control of some interaction, usually two-party, such as a conversation, from another.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgI had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me. Temple Grandin
It avoids the strict alternation of a naïve turn-taking algorithm, and was one of the first mutual exclusion algorithms to be invented. Source: Internet
Other symptoms can include a loss of verbal pragmatic skills and conversational turn-taking. Source: Internet
Regulators and turn-taking in American Sign Language discourse, in Lynn Friedman, On the other hand: New perspectives on American Sign Language. Source: Internet