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

Language Proficiency and F0 Entrainment: A Study of L2 English Imitation in Italian, French, and Slovak Speakers

This study explores F0 entrainment in second language (L2) English speech imitation during an Alternating Reading Task (ART). Participants with Italian, French, and Slovak native languages imitated English utterances, an…

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…

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…

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…

Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment and Social Behavior