Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …

Intelligent agents interacting with humans through conversation (such as a robot, embodied
conversational agent, or chatbot) need to receive feedback from the human to make sure …

This study consolidates findings on phonetic convergence in a large-scale examination of
the impacts of talker sex, word frequency, and model talkers on multiple measures of …

Spoken dialogue systems are increasingly being used to facilitate and enhance human
communication. While these interactive systems can process the linguistic aspects of human …

This study investigates the relationship between the variability in the temporal alignment of
turn initiations and the pragmatics of interpersonal communication. The data come from …

Speech entrainment is the tendency of interlocutors to become similar to each other during
spoken interaction. Entrainment is a natural component of the cognitive system underlying …

Interlocutors in spoken conversations have been shown to entrain, or become similar to
each other, in multiple dimensions. We investigate the relationship between entrainment …

The current study examined phonetic convergence when talkers alternated roles during
conversational interaction. The talkers completed a map navigation task in which they …

The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second
language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of …

In order to explore the influence of context on the phonetic design of talk-in-interaction, we
investigated the pitch characteristics of short turns (insertions) that are produced by one …