Conversational participants tend to immediately and unconsciously adapt to each other's
language styles: a speaker will even adjust the number of articles and other function words …

After reviewing situational and demographic factors that have been argued to affect
speakers' disfluency rates, we examined disfluency rates in a corpus of task-oriented …

We describe a “centipede's dilemma” that faces the sciences of human interaction. Research
on human interaction has been involved in extensive theoretical debate, although the vast …

There is strong evidence that when two people talk to each other, they tend to converge, or
align, on common ways of speaking (eg, Pickering and Garrod, 2004). In this paper, we …

In this chapter, our task is to discuss the research to date on teacher learning. We interpret
this task as an opportunity to explore literature around the question: How do teachers learn …

Five experiments examined the extent to which speakers' alignment (ie, convergence) on
words in dialog is mediated by beliefs about their interlocutor. To do this, we told participants …

In this chapter, we consider communication as a joint activity in which two or more
interlocutors share or synchronize aspects of their private mental states and act together in …

No one denies that people adapt what they say and how they interpret what is said to them,
depending on their interactive partners. What is controversial is when and how they do so …

Speakers often tailor their utterances to the needs of particular addressees—a process
called audience design. We argue that important aspects of audience design can be …

Speakers tend to attenuate information that is predictable or repeated. To what extent is this
done automatically and egocentrically, because it is easiest for speakers themselves, and to …