A Network Model of Interpersonal Alignment in Dialog

In dyadic communication, both interlocutors adapt to each other linguistically, that is, they align interpersonally. In this article, we develop a framework for modeling interpersonal alignment in terms of the structural similarity of the interlocutors’ dialog lexica. This is done by means of so-cal...

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Main Authors: Alexander Mehler, Andy Lücking, Petra Weiß
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-06-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/6/1440/