Brains in dialogue : investigating accommodation in live conversational speech for both speech and EEG data
One of the phenomena to emerge from the study of human spoken interaction is accommodation or the tendency of an individualâs speech patterning to shift relative to their interlocutor. Whilst the experimental approach to the detection of accommodation has a solid background in the literature, it tends to treat the process of accommodation as a black box. The general approach for the detection of accommodation in speech has been to record the speech of a given speaker prior to interaction and then again after an interaction. These two measures are then compared to the speech of the interlocutor to test for similarity. If the speech sample following interaction is more similar then we can say that accommodation has taken place. Part of the goal of this thesis is to evaluate whether it is possible to look into the black box of speech accommodation and measure it âin situâ. Given that speech accommodation appears to take place as a result of interaction, it would be reasonable to assume that a similar effect might be observable in other areas contributing to a communicative interaction. The notion of an interacting dyad developing an increased degree of alignment over the course of an interaction has been
Solanki, Vijay James
BF Psychology ; P Philology. Linguistics ; QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Brains in dialogue : investigating accommodation in live conversational speech for both speech and EEG data. One of the phenomena to emerge from the study of human spoken interaction is accommodation or the tendency of an individualâs speech patterning to shift relative to their interlocutor. Whilst the experimental approach to the detection of accommodation has a solid background in the literature, it tends to treat the process of accommodation as a black box. The general approach for the detection of accommodation in speech has been to record the speech of a given speaker prior to interaction and then again after an interaction. These two measures are then compared to the speech of the interlocutor to test for similarity. If the speech sample following interaction is more similar then we can say that accommodation has taken place. Part of the goal of this thesis is to evaluate whether it is possible to look into the black box of speech accommodation and measure it âin situâ. Given that speech accommodation appears to take place as a result of interaction, it would be reasonable to assume that a similar effect might be observable in other areas contributing to a communicative interaction. The notion of an interacting dyad developing an increased degree of alignment over the course of an interaction has been
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