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Description: The notion of micro-sequentiality has been used to explore sequential temporal relations in interaction based on relations of successivity and simultaneity. The notion of sequentiality is the fundamental principle of social interaction (Schegloff, 2006, 2007), highlighting the emergent, progressive, incremental temporal way in which actions are stepwise produced, and progressively attended, understood and responded to. The notion of micro-sequentiality emphasizes the fact that these emergent productions and their responses are often achieved not just within strictly successive actions (in which an action is followed by a response), but within largely simultaneous actions, in which an action is immediately responded to, while it is still ongoing, and where this response can reflexively affect the way that that action is continuously produced (Deppermann & Schmidt, 2021; Mondada, 2021).