Phonetic Accommodation

Winter 2020/2021, Möbius (Seminar, 2 SWS), LSF/HIS #124749

MSc Language Science and Technology / LCT
BSc Computerlinguistik

Wed 16:00-17:30

This course is taught online via Zoom.

Entrance requirements

None.

Course description

Phonetic accommodation, also known as phonetic convergence, refers to the established fact that speakers tend to become more similar in their speech production patterns to those of their interlocutor, in the course of a conversation. In this seminar, participants will read, present, and discuss selected papers that pertain to various aspects of accommodation behavior in spoken language, to the theories that try to explain why this behavior occurs and what its functions are, and to implications for human-computer interaction.

Course credits

7 CP (presentation and paper) or 4 CP (presentation only).
Active participation on a regular basis required.

Requirements

Participation: You are expected to be physically present throughout the seminar and take part in the discussion.
You may miss maximally one class without formal consequences. Please send me an email message in this case, just saying that you will not take part, no explanation required. In case you cannot make it a second or third time, you have to write and submit a summary of the papers to be read (minimum one page per paper).

Reading: For each class, you are required to read one or two papers (see Schedule). For each paper, please send me one question that you want to be answered or discussed in class (on the day preceding the class, before midnight).

Presentation: An oral presentation of 30-45 minutes, typically based on a core paper and maybe some complementary reading. Please contact me (1) when you have been assigned a topic/paper and want to start working on it; (2) when you have a pre-final draft version of the presentation. After your presentation I will provide feedback to you. The final version of your slides will be posted on the course homepage.

Term Paper: MSc students opting for the 7 CP version have to write a term paper (15-20 pages, deadlines see below). The topic of the paper need not be identical or overlap with the topic of your oral presentation.

Deadlines

Exam registration: January 29, 2021
Term paper: March 31, 2021

Contact:
  Prof. Dr. Bernd Möbius
  Email
  C7.2/4.10
  0681/302-4500

Schedule

Date Topic Slides / Questions Presented by
04.11. Introduction, organization BM
11.11. Lewandowski/Jilka:2019
Shepard/etal:2001		 slides / questions
slides / questions		 Richter
Osmelak
18.11. Pickering/Garrod:2014 slides / questions Shaykhutdinova
02.12. Pardo:2006 slides / questions Graichen
09.12. Gessinger/etal:2019,2021
Wynn/Borrie:2020a		 slides / questions
slides / questions		 Kany
Cayralat
16.12.
5:00 PM		 CohenPriva/Sanker:2020 slides / questions A.Borisenkov
06.01. Kim/etal:2011
Aubanel/Nguyen:2020		 slides / questions
slides / questions		 Kolmorgen
Kirchner
13.01.
5:00-6:30 PM		 Oviatt/etal:2004
Raveh/etal:2018		 slides / questions
slides / questions		 Brown
Peter
20.01.
5:00 PM		 Pardo/etal:2018 slides / questions Canzoneri
27.01. Babel:2010
CohenPriva/Sanker:2019		 slides / questions
slides / questions		 Dietinger
Meier
03.02. Yu/etal:2013 slides / questions Souridi

Literature

[BACH] = suitable for bachelor students
[SHARE] = suitable for sharing between two
presenters

Essential

Lewandowski, N. & Jilka, M. (2019): Phonetic convergence, language
talent, personality and attention. Frontiers in Communication 4,
article 18:1-19. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2019.00018
[PDF]

Pickering, M. & Garrod, S. (2004). Toward a mechanistic psychology of
dialogue. Behavior and Brain Sciences, 27, 169-226.
[PDF]

Shepard, C.A., Giles, H. & Le Poire, B.A. (2001): Communication
Accommodation Theory. The New Handbook of Language and Social
Psychology (Wiley), 33-56.
[PDF]

Pardo, J. (2006). On phonetic convergence during conversational
interaction. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(4),
2382-2393.  [PDF]

Oviatt, S., Darves, C., & Coulston, R. (2004). Toward adaptive
conversational interfaces: Modeling speech conver- gence with animated
personas. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 11, 300-328.
[PDF]


Also highly relevant

Aubanel, V. & Nguyen, N. (2020): Speaking to a common tune:
Between-speaker convergence in voice fundamental frequency in a joint
speech production task. PLoS ONE
15(5):5. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232209
[PDF]
[BACH]

Babel, M. (2010): Dialect divergence and convergence in New Zealand
English. Language in Society 39, pp. 437-456.
[PDF]
[BACH]

Cohen Priva, U., Edelist, L., & Gleason, E. (2017). Converging to the
baseline: Corpus evidence for convergence in speech rate to
interlocutor's baseline. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
141(5), 2989-2996.
[PDF]
[BACH]

Cohen Priva, U. & Sanker, C. (2019): Limitations of
difference-in-difference for measuring convergence. Laboratory
Phonology 10(1):1-29.
[PDF]

Cohen Priva, U. & Sanker, C. (2020): Natural Leaders - Some
interlocutors elicit greater convergence across conversations and
across characteristics. Preprint.
[PDF]

Gessinger, I., Möbius, B., Fakhar, N., Raveh, E. & Steiner, I. (2019):
A Wizard-of-Oz experiment to study phonetic accommodation in
human-computer interaction. 19th International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences (ICPhS 2019) (Melbourne), 1475-1479.
[PDF]
[BACH]
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
Gessinger, I., Möbius, B., Andreeva, B., Raveh, E. & Steiner,
I. (2019): Phonetic accommodation in a Wizard-of-Oz experiment:
Intonation and segments. Interspeech 2019 (Graz), 301-305.
[PDF]
[BACH]

Gessinger, I., Raveh, E., Steiner, I. & Möbius, B. (2021):
Phonetic accommodation to natural and synthetic voices: Behavior of
groups and individuals in speech shadowing. Speech Communication 127, 43-63.
[PDF]

Kim, M., Horton, W.S. & Bradlow, A.R. (2011): Phonetic convergence in
spontaneous conversations as a function of interlocutor language
distance. Laboratory Phonology 2:125-156.
[PDF]
[BACH]

Pardo, J.S., Urmanche, A., Wilman, S., Wiener, J., Mason, N., Francis,
K. & Ward, M. (2018): A comparison of phonetic convergence in
conversational interaction and speech shadowing. Journal of Phonetics
69:1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.04.001
[PDF]
[BACH]

Raveh, E., Steiner, I., Gessinger, I. & Möbius,B. (2018): Studying
mutual phonetic influence with a web-based spoken dialogue system. In
Karpov, A., Jokisch, O. & Potapova, R. (eds.), 20th International
Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), volume 11096 of Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 552-562. Springer, September 2018.
[PDF]
[BACH]

Wynn, C.J. & Borrie, S.A. (2020a): Methodology matters: The impact of
research design on conversational entrainment outcomes. Journal of
Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 63:1352-1360.
[PDF]
[BACH]

Wynn, C.J. & Borrie, S.A. (2020b): A systematic framework for
classifying conversational entrainment of speech behavior. Preprint.
[PDF]
[BACH]

Yu, A.C.L., Abrego-Collier, C. & Sonderegger, M. (2013): Phonetic
imitation from an individual-difference perspective: subjective
attitude, personality and "autistic" traits. PLoS ONE 8(9): e74746.
[PDF]
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