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On phonetic convergence during conversational interaction.

Jennifer S Pardo1

  • 1Psychology Department, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, New York 10027, USA. jsp2003@columbia.edu

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|April 29, 2006
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Conversational partners unconsciously adjust their speech to sound more alike, showing phonetic convergence. This unconscious speech similarity impacts social interactions and can influence accent and dialect development.

Area of Science:

  • Phonetics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Previous research demonstrated imitation in single-word shadowing.
  • The current study investigates phonetic convergence in conversational interactions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify the degree of phonetic similarity between interacting talkers during conversation.
  • To determine if conversational partners exhibit phonetic convergence.

Main Methods:

  • Examined between-talker repetitions of lexical items in a conversational task.
  • Utilized a perceptual task with separate listeners to assess phonetic similarity.
  • Compared phonetic similarity of repeated items during interaction versus pre- and post-interaction.

Main Results:

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  • Listeners perceived repeated items spoken by one talker as more similar to their partner's production than to their own pre- or post-interaction utterances.
  • Phonetic convergence was observed between conversational partners.
  • Participant role and talker sex influenced the extent of phonetic convergence.

Conclusions:

  • Talkers in conversational settings demonstrate phonetic convergence.
  • Phonetic convergence may serve nonlinguistic social functions.
  • Phonetic convergence can contribute to accent change and dialect formation.