Measuring Prosodic Entrainment in Conversation: A Review and Comparison of Different Methods.

Purpose: This study aims to further our understanding of prosodic entrainment and its different subtypes by analyzing a single corpus of conversations with 12 different methods and comparing the subsequent results. Method: Entrainment on three fundamental frequency features was analyzed in a subset...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 66; no. 11; pp. 4280 - 4315
Autores principales: Kruyt, Joanna, de Jong, Dorina, D’Ausilio, Alessandro, Beňuš, Štefan
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Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Nov2023
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Sumario:Purpose: This study aims to further our understanding of prosodic entrainment and its different subtypes by analyzing a single corpus of conversations with 12 different methods and comparing the subsequent results. Method: Entrainment on three fundamental frequency features was analyzed in a subset of recordings from the LUCID corpus (Baker & Hazan, 2011) using the following methods: global proximity, global convergence, local proximity, local convergence, local synchrony (Levitan & Hirschberg, 2011), prediction using linear mixed-effects models (Schweitzer & Lewandowski, 2013), geometric approach (Lehnert-LeHouillier, Terrazas, & Sandoval, 2020), time-aligned moving average (Kousidis et al., 2008), HYBRID method (De Looze et al., 2014), crossrecurrence quantification analysis (e.g., Fusaroli & Tylén, 2016), and windowed, lagged cross-correlation (Boker et al., 2002). We employed entrainment measures on a local timescale (i.e., on adjacent utterances), a global timescale (i.e., over larger time frames), and a time series–based timescale that is larger than adjacent utterances but smaller than entire conversations. Results: We observed variance in results of different methods. Conclusions: Results suggest that each method may measure a slightly different type of entrainment. The complex implications this has for existing and future research are discussed.