Convergence of mean vocal intensity in dyadic communication as a function of social desirability.

Natale, Michael

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“…This phonetic convergence (also known as phonetic accommodation, speech accommodation, and speech alignment), has been found to manifest in convergence along acoustical speech characteristics, including speech rate (e.g., Street, 1984), vocal intensity (e.g., Natale, 1975), and vowel spectra (e.g., Pardo, Gibbons, Suppes, & Krauss, 2012). Although phonetic convergence typically occurs without intent, the degree to which perceivers converge to the speech of conversational partners can be influenced by the social dynamics of a conversational interaction (e.g., Pardo, 2006;Pardo, Jay, & Krauss, 2010).…”

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Visibility of speech articulation enhances auditory phonetic convergence

Dias

Rosenblum

2015

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Talkers automatically imitate aspects of perceived speech, a phenomenon known as phonetic convergence. Talkers have previously been found to converge to auditory and visual speech information. Furthermore, talkers converge more to the speech of a conversational partner who is seen and heard, relative to one who is just heard (Dias & Rosenblum Perception, 40, 1457-1466, 2011. A question raised by this finding is what visual information facilitates the enhancement effect. In the following experiments, we investigated the possible contributions of visible speech articulation to visual enhancement of phonetic convergence within the noninteractive context of a shadowing task. In Experiment 1, we examined the influence of the visibility of a talker on phonetic convergence when shadowing auditory speech either in the clear or in low-level auditory noise. The results suggest that visual speech can compensate for convergence that is reduced by auditory noise masking. Experiment 2 further established the visibility of articulatory mouth movements as being important to the visual enhancement of phonetic convergence. Furthermore, the word frequency and phonological neighborhood density characteristics of the words shadowed were found to significantly predict phonetic convergence in both experiments. Consistent with previous findings (e.g., Goldinger Psychological Review, 105, 251-279, 1998), phonetic convergence was greater when shadowing low-frequency words. Convergence was also found to be greater for low-density words, contrasting with previous predictions of the effect of phonological neighborhood density on auditory phonetic convergence (e.g., Pardo, Jordan, Mallari, Scanlon, & Lewandowski Journal of Memory and Language, 69, 183-195, 2013). Implications of the results for a gestural account of phonetic convergence are discussed.

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Visibility of speech articulation enhances auditory phonetic convergence

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Rosenblum

2015

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“…In general, interlocutors accommodate to one another linguistically and non-linguistically, and such accommodation is at least partially driven by non-automatic social goals, as indicated by cases of hyperaccommodation and divergence (for a review, see Giles et al 1991). The role of social factors in communication accommodation is also reflected in its sensitivity to factors such as speakers' desire for social affiliation (Natale 1975;Putman andStreet 1984), speakers' prestige (Gregory andWebster 1996), and interlocutors' liking and attitude towards one another and the closeness of their relationship (Bourhis and Giles 1977;Gregory et al 1997;Chartrand and Bargh 1999;Babel 2010Babel , 2012Pardo et al 2012). Speakers have been shown to accommodate to their interlocutors' dialectal pronunciation, speech rate, level of standardness, frequency and length of pauses, gestures, and so on (Jaffe and Feldstein 1970;Coupland 1980;Street 1982;Thekarer et al 1982;Chartrand and Bargh 1999).…”

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An experimental study of the role of social factors in language change: The case of loanword adaptations

Lev‐Ari

Peperkamp

2014

Laboratory Phonology

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Abstract:There is great variation in whether foreign sounds in loanwords are adapted or retained. Importantly, the retention of foreign sounds can lead to a sound change in the language. We propose that social factors influence the likelihood of loanword sound adaptation, and use this case to introduce a novel experimental paradigm for studying language change that captures the role of social factors. Specifically, we show that the relative prestige of the donor language in the loanword's semantic domain influences the rate of sound adaptation. We further show that speakers adapt to the performance of their 'community', and that this adaptation leads to the creation of a norm. The results of this study are thus the first to show an effect of social factors on loanword sound adaptation in an experimental setting. Moreover, they open up a new domain of experimentally studying language change in a manner that integrates social factors.

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“…Imitations of the voices of well-known figures by vocal impressionists are caricatures that exaggerate particularly salient features rather than produce acoustically accurate reproductions. The remainder of the published evidence for phonological imitation is mainly of increased similarity in speech rate and pitch (Giles et al 1991;Natale 1975a; 1975b) and voice onset timing (Sancier & Fowler 1997). In a continuously variable system, what degree of similarity constitutes an imitation?…”

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Some notes on priming, alignment, and self-monitoring

Schiller

Ruiter

2004

Behav. Brain Sci.

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Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a result, these accounts may only offer limited theories of the mechanisms that underlie language processing in general. We propose a mechanistic account of dialogue, the interactive alignment account, and use it to derive a number of predictions about basic language processes. The account assumes that, in dialogue, the linguistic representations employed by the interlocutors become aligned at many levels, as a result of a largely automatic process. This process greatly simplifies production and comprehension in dialogue. After considering the evidence for the interactive alignment model, we concentrate on three aspects of processing that follow from it. It makes use of a simple interactive inference mechanism, enables the development of local dialogue routines that greatly simplify language processing, and explains the origins of self-monitoring in production. We consider the need for a grammatical framework that is designed to deal with language in dialogue rather than monologue, and discuss a range of implications of the account.Keywords: common ground; dialogue; dialogue routines; language comprehension; language production; monitoring; perception-behavior link leagues (e.g., Brennan & Clark 1996;Wilkes-Gibbs & Clark 1992; also Brennan & Schober 2001;Horton & Keysar 1996). Well-controlled studies of language production in dialogue may require some ingenuity, but such experimental ingenuity has always been a strength of psychology.The theoretical reason why psycholinguistics has ignored dialogue is that psycholinguistics has derived most of its predictions from generative linguistics, and generative linguistics has developed theories of isolated, decontextualized sentences that are used in texts or speeches, that is, in monologue. In contrast, dialogue is inherently interactive and contextualized: Each interlocutor both speaks and comprehends during the course of the interaction; each interrupts both others and himself; on occasion two or more speakers collaborate in producing the same sentence (Coates 1990). So it is not surprising that generative linguists commonly view dialogue as being of marginal grammaticality, contaminated by theoretically uninteresting complexities. Dialogue sits ill with the competence/performance distinction assumed by most generative linguistics (Chomsky 1965), because it is hard to determine whether a particular utterance is "well-formed" or not (or even whether that notion is relevant to dialogue). Thus, linguistics has tended to concentrate on developing generative grammars and related theories for isolated sentences; and psycholinguistics has tended to develop processing theories that draw upon the rules and representations assumed by generative linguistics. So far as most psycholinguists have thought about dialogue, they have tended to assume that the results of experiments on monologue can be...

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Convergence of mean vocal intensity in dyadic communication as a function of social desirability.

Cited by 261 publications

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Visibility of speech articulation enhances auditory phonetic convergence

Visibility of speech articulation enhances auditory phonetic convergence

An experimental study of the role of social factors in language change: The case of loanword adaptations

Some notes on priming, alignment, and self-monitoring

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