Measuring acoustic-prosodic entrainment with respect to multiple levels and dimensions
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: In conversation, speakers become more like each other in various dimensions. This phenomenon, commonly called entrainment, coordination, or alignment, is widely believed to be crucial to the success and naturalness of human interactions. We investigate entrainment in four acoustic and prosodic dimensions. We explore whether speakers coordinate with each other in these dimensions over the conversation as a whole as well as on a turn-by-turn basis and in both relative and absolute terms, and whether this coordination improves over the course of the conversation.
DOI: 10.7916/d8v12d8f
Authors: Levitan, Rivka, Hirschberg, Julia Bell
Institution: Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1536313757