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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Acoustic Phonetics

Background:

  • Speech entrainment, the similarity in speech behaviors between conversational partners, is crucial for successful adult communication.
  • Theoretical models and developmental research suggest that the capacity for speech entrainment should mature throughout adolescence.
  • Limited research exists on the specific developmental path and impact of speech entrainment on adolescent conversations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To characterize the patterns of speech entrainment in the conversations of neurotypical early adolescents.
  • To investigate the developmental trajectory of speech entrainment skills during early adolescence.

Main Methods:

  • Analyzed a corpus of 96 task-based conversations involving adolescents aged 9–14 years and a comparison corpus of 32 adult conversations.
  • Calculated speech entrainment scores for 429 acoustic features (rhythmic, articulatory, phonatory) in each conversational turn.
  • Employed predictive modeling to assess entrainment levels and their correlation with conversational quality and efficiency.

Main Results:

  • Speech entrainment increased significantly from early to late adolescence, though it did not reach adult levels.
  • Speech entrainment emerged as a significant predictor of both conversational quality and efficiency.
  • Multidimensional models incorporating all acoustic features and entrainment types outperformed models using limited features or single entrainment types.

Conclusions:

  • Speech entrainment skills are substantially developed by early adolescence, with potential for continued refinement in later adolescence.
  • Speech entrainment plays a vital role in successful adolescent conversations, warranting further study in both neurotypical and neurodivergent youth.
  • Holistic measurement approaches capturing the multidimensionality of speech entrainment are valuable for research and provide a validated methodology.