Abstract
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 underlying structure. We consider various measures of both acoustic-prosodic and lexical entrainment, measuring the latter with a novel application of two previously introduced methods in addition to a standard high-frequency word measure. We present a negative result of our search, finding no meaningful correlations, clusters, or principal components in various entrainment measures, and discuss practical and theoretical implications.- Anthology ID:
- N18-2048
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 297–302
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/N18-2048
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/N18-2048
- Cite (ACL):
- Andreas Weise and Rivka Levitan. 2018. Looking for Structure in Lexical and Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment Behaviors. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), pages 297–302, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Looking for Structure in Lexical and Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment Behaviors (Weise & Levitan, NAACL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/N18-2048.pdf