Purpose: Defined as the similarity of speech behaviors between interlocutors, speech
entrainment plays an important role in successful adult conversations. According to …

Phonetic imitation (also called convergence or accommodation) occurs when talkers alter
their pronunciation towards speech they hear. This can happen spontaneously with only a …

Convergence to variation in voice onset time (VOT) of English voiceless stops is reported to
be selective, with speakers adjusting their VOTs after exposure to stimuli with lengthened …

When language users accommodate a novel phonetic variant, they adjust their perceptual
and articulatory spaces in listener-and speaker-specific ways. Motivated by the centrality of …

Speakers adjust their pronunciation to come to sound more similar to recently heard speech
in a phenomenon called phonetic imitation. The extent to which speakers imitate is …

This study investigates imitation of English/s/to determine whether speakers converge
toward normalized or raw acoustic targets. Participants exposed to increased spectral mean …

Phonetic imitation of phonetic cues that signal phonological contrasts–eg voice onset time,
signaling the/t/-/d/contrast–is generally non-linear. However, previous work on how …

Stop consonants are ubiquitous among the world's languages. These consonants are
demarcated by three articulatory phases that can be targeted by sociophonetic factors …

It has been demonstrated that a speaker aligns their speech production with a model talker
when shadowing model speech stimuli. The current study explores the Japanese English …

Speakers spontaneously and subconsciously imitate the accents of their interlocutors. This
thesis reviews and elaborates on prior research related to the relationship between the …