On phonetic convergence during conversational interaction.

Phonetic Convergence During Conversational Interaction in Bilingual Speakers

Measuring phonetic convergence in speech production

Phonetic convergence is defined as an increase in the similarity of acoustic-phonetic form between talkers. Previous research has demonstrated phonetic convergence both when a talker listens passively to speech and while talkers engage in social interaction. Much of this research has focused on a diverse array of acoustic-phonetic attributes, with fewer studies incorporating perceptual measures...

Convergence of laughter in conversational speech: effects of quantity, temporal alignment and imitation

A crucial feature of spoken interaction is joint activity at various linguistic and phonetic levels that requires fine-tuned coordination. This study gives a brief overview on how laughing in conversational speech can be phonetically analysed as partner-specific adaptation and joint vocal action. Laughter as a feature of social bonding leads to the assumption that when laughter appears in dialo...

Study of the Phenomenon of Phonetic Convergence Thanks to Speech Dominoes

During an interaction people are known to mutually adapt. Phonetic adaptation has been studied notably for prosodic parameters such as loudness, speech rate or fundamental frequency. In most of the cases, results are contradictory and the effectiveness of phonetic convergence during an interaction remains an open issue. This paper describes an experiment based on a children game known as speech...

Speech dominoes and phonetic convergence

Interlocutors are known to mutually adapt during conversation. Recent studies have questioned the adaptation of phonological representations and kinematics of phonetic variables such as loudness, speech rate or fundamental frequency. Results are often contradictory and the effectiveness of phonetic convergence during conversation is still an open issue. This paper describes an original experime...