It’s alignment all the way down, but not all the way up: Speakers align on some features but not others within a dialogue

• Published in: Journal of phonetics Vol. 88; p. 101074
• Main Authors: Ostrand, Rachel, Chodroff, Eleanor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2021
• Subjects: Adaptation; Alignment; Machine learning; Partner-specific; Phonetics; Syntax; Phonetics; Alignment; Partner-specific; Syntax; Machine learning; Adaptation

•Speakers modulate their production to match their interlocutors’, called alignment.•We assess several individual features of syntactic and acoustic-phonetic alignment.•We also compute a holistic measure using machine learning on 323 individual phonetic features.•Speakers aligned on some but not all...