Word-by-word entrainment of speech rhythm during joint story building
Movements and behaviour synchronise during social interaction at many levels, often unintentionally. During smooth conversation, for example, participants adapt to each others' speech rates. Here we aimed to find out to which extent speakers adapt their turn-taking rhythms during a story-buildi...
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| author | Tommi eHimberg Lotta eHirvenkari Anne eMandel Riitta eHari |
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| description | Movements and behaviour synchronise during social interaction at many levels, often unintentionally. During smooth conversation, for example, participants adapt to each others' speech rates. Here we aimed to find out to which extent speakers adapt their turn-taking rhythms during a story-building game.Nine sex-matched dyads of adults (12 males, 6 females) created two 5-min stories by contributing to them alternatingly one word at a time. The participants were located in different rooms, with audio connection during one story and audiovisual during the other. They were free to select the topic of the story.Although the participants received no instructions regarding the timing of the story building, their word rhythms were highly entrained (R ̅ = 0.70, p < 0.001) even though the rhythms as such were unstable (R ̅ = 0.14 for pooled data). Such high entrainment in the absence of steady word rhythm occurred in every individual story, independently of whether the subjects were connected via audio-only or audiovisual link.The observed entrainment was of similar strength as typical entrainment in finger-tapping tasks where participants are specifically instructed to synchronize their behaviour. Thus speech seems to spontaneously induce strong entrainment between the conversation partners, likely reflecting automatic alignment of their semantic and syntactic processes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4f276beab49043c3866d8db6acd1632b2022-12-22T00:22:49ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-06-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.00797141016Word-by-word entrainment of speech rhythm during joint story buildingTommi eHimberg0Lotta eHirvenkari1Anne eMandel2Riitta eHari3School of Science, Aalto UniversitySchool of Science, Aalto UniversitySchool of Science, Aalto UniversitySchool of Science, Aalto UniversityMovements and behaviour synchronise during social interaction at many levels, often unintentionally. During smooth conversation, for example, participants adapt to each others' speech rates. Here we aimed to find out to which extent speakers adapt their turn-taking rhythms during a story-building game.Nine sex-matched dyads of adults (12 males, 6 females) created two 5-min stories by contributing to them alternatingly one word at a time. The participants were located in different rooms, with audio connection during one story and audiovisual during the other. They were free to select the topic of the story.Although the participants received no instructions regarding the timing of the story building, their word rhythms were highly entrained (R ̅ = 0.70, p < 0.001) even though the rhythms as such were unstable (R ̅ = 0.14 for pooled data). Such high entrainment in the absence of steady word rhythm occurred in every individual story, independently of whether the subjects were connected via audio-only or audiovisual link.The observed entrainment was of similar strength as typical entrainment in finger-tapping tasks where participants are specifically instructed to synchronize their behaviour. Thus speech seems to spontaneously induce strong entrainment between the conversation partners, likely reflecting automatic alignment of their semantic and syntactic processes.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00797/fullSpeechsocial interactionentrainmentturn-takingmutual adaptationword rhythm |
| spellingShingle | Tommi eHimberg Lotta eHirvenkari Anne eMandel Riitta eHari Word-by-word entrainment of speech rhythm during joint story building Frontiers in Psychology Speech social interaction entrainment turn-taking mutual adaptation word rhythm |
| title | Word-by-word entrainment of speech rhythm during joint story building |
| title_full | Word-by-word entrainment of speech rhythm during joint story building |
| title_fullStr | Word-by-word entrainment of speech rhythm during joint story building |
| title_full_unstemmed | Word-by-word entrainment of speech rhythm during joint story building |
| title_short | Word-by-word entrainment of speech rhythm during joint story building |
| title_sort | word by word entrainment of speech rhythm during joint story building |
| topic | Speech social interaction entrainment turn-taking mutual adaptation word rhythm |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00797/full |
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