Purpose: Acoustic–prosodic entrainment, defined as the tendency for individuals to modify
their speech behaviors to more closely align with the behaviors of their conversation partner …

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

Purpose: According to the speech attunement framework, autistic individuals lack the ability
and/or motivation to “tune up” their speech to the same level of precision as their …

In spoken dialog people vary their interaction styles, and dialog systems should be able to
do the same. Previous work has elucidated various aspects of style variation and adaptation …

Purpose Coordination of communicative behavior supports shared understanding in
conversation. The current study brings together analysis of two speech coordination …

The human tendency to adapt to interlocutors to become more similar, known as
entrainment, has been studied for many languages. To our knowledge, however, there have …

A fundamental goal of speech science is to inventory the meaning-conveying elements of
human speech. This article provides evidence for the inclusion of phonetic reduction in this …

Purpose For individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD), conversational interactions can be
challenging. Efforts to improve the success of these interactions have largely fallen on the …

Reduced articulatory precision is common in speech, but for dialog its acoustic properties
and pragmatic functions have been little studied. We here try to remedy this gap. This …

This pilot study examined the impact of feedback type on learning a novel speech task, as
measured by listener ratings, and will inform procedures for future investigations within a …