Voice pitch and amplitude convergence as a metric of quality in dyadic interviews

Immediate and Distracted Imitation in Second-Language Speech: Unreleased Plosives In English

“…A variety of phonetic features have been reported to undergo imitative convergence, such as accent, speaking rate, intensity, pitch, variation of frequency bands, long-term average spectra, frequency of pauses, and utterance length (Giles et al 1991;Goldinger 1997;Gregory 1990;Gregory and Webster 1996;Gregory et al 1993Gregory et al , 1997Gregory et al , 2001Namy et al 2002;Natale 1975;Pardo et al 2012). Other studies have concentrated on VOT as a temporal parameter that undergoes assimilation as a result of exposure to the model talker.…”

Making the Connection: Social Bonding in Courtship Situations

“…These are supportive interchanges because the speaker is responding to a prior turn by aligning with the partner. By contrast, negative interchanges redirect action and impose on others, for example, by interrupting in ways that may violate speaking rights or by using questions that redirect the conversation and call on the partner to subordinate in response ðalthough, as we will discuss below, the linguistics literature suggests that these conversational devices can sometimes be used in positive ways; Brown and Levinson 1987;Cupach and Metts 1994;Pentland 2005Þ Gregory et al 1993;Nenkova, Gravano, and Hirschberg 2008;Abrego-Collier et al 2011;Ireland et al 2011Þ. Therefore, for dating, it is likely that repeating or mimicking the partner is a form of alignment that corresponds with a sense of connection.…”

Investigating automatic measurements of prosodic accommodation and its dynamics in social interaction

“…It has long been noted that conversational partners tend to exhibit similar pitch and intonation contours (Putman and Street, 1984;Giles et al, 1991;Zebrowitz et al, 1992;Gregory et al, 1993;Stanford and Webster, 1996;Gregory and Dagan, 1997;Collins, 1998;Shepard et al, 2001;, voice intensity level (Black, 1949;Meltzer and Morris, 1971;Natale, 1975;Gregory and Hoyt, 1982;Coulston et al, 2002;, speech rate and speech timing (Matarazzo and Wiens, 1967;Webb, 1972;Welkowitz and Kuc, 1973;Street et al, 1983;Woodall and Burgoon, 1983;Giles et al, 1991;Jaffe, 2001;Kousidis et al, 2008;McGarva and Warner, 2003;Edlund et al, 2009;.…”

“…Speakers have been found to adapt their lexicon (Brennan, 1996;Pickering and Garrod, 2004;Nenkova et al, 2008), the grammatical and syntactic structure of their utterances (Levelt, 1982;Branigan et al, 2010;Cleland and Pickering, 2003;Haywood et al, 2005;Pickering and Ferreira, 2008), their pronunciation (Giles et al, 1991;Delvaux and Soquet, 2007;Babel and Bulatov, 2011;Aubanel and Nguyen, 2010;Bailly and Lelong, 2010;Pardo, 2006) and their prosodic characteristics to those of their partners (Natale, 1975;Gregory and Hoyt, 1982;Gregory et al, 1993;Stanford and Webster, 1996;Gregory and Dagan, 1997;Edlund et al, 2009;Levitan et al, 2011a;. They have been shown to display similar facial expressions (Bavelas et al, 1986;Hess and Blairy, 2001) and mimic gestures and body postures and movements (Condon and Sander, 1974;Meltzoff and Moore, 1977;Maurer and Tindall, 1983;Bernieri and Rosenthal, 1991;Chartrand and Bargh, 1999;Richardson et al, 2007;Shockley et al, 2007Shockley et al, , 2009).…”