Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment and Social Behavior

Looking for Structure in Lexical and Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment Behaviors

Entrainment has been shown to occur for various linguistic features individually. Motivated by cognitive theories regarding linguistic entrainment, we analyze speakers{'} overall entrainment behaviors and search for an u…

A unifying framework for modeling acoustic/prosodic entrainment: definition and evaluation on two large corpora

Acoustic/prosodic (a/p) entrainment has been associated with multiple positive social aspects of human-human conversations. However, research on its effects is still preliminary, first because how to model it is far from…

Towards a Real-time Measure of the Perception of Anthropomorphism in Human-robot Interaction

How human-like do conversational robots need to look to enable long-term human-robot conversation? One essential aspect of long-term interaction is a human's ability to adapt to the varying degrees of a conversational pa…

Acoustic-prosodic entrainment in Slovak, Spanish, English and Chinese: A cross-linguistic comparison

A Cross-lingual Comparison of Human and Classification Model Entrainment Behavior in Code-switched Speech Settings

Conversational entrainment is well-studied in monolingual and written contexts, but remains underexplored in spoken code-switching (CSW). We present a novel cross-lingual analysis of entrainment in Mandarin-English, Hind…