Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) has served as a cross-disciplinary framework
for understanding the adjustments individuals make to create, maintain, or decrease social …

Phonetic convergence is defined as an increase in the similarity of acoustic-phonetic form
between talkers. Previous research has demonstrated phonetic convergence both when a …

Imagine a conversation between an older male professor of British origin, a male African
American undergraduate student, and a female postdoctoral student from Switzerland taking …

Conversational participants tend to immediately and unconsciously adapt to each other's
language styles: a speaker will even adjust the number of articles and other function words …

Spontaneous phonetic imitation is the process by which a talker comes to be more similar-
sounding to a model talker as the result of exposure. The current experiment investigates …

Following research that found imitation in single-word shadowing, this study examines the
degree to which interacting talkers increase similarity in phonetic repertoire during …

The imitation paradigm (Goldinger, 1998) has shown that speakers shift their production
phonetically in the direction of the imitated speech, indicating the use of episodic traces in …

Several years ago, one of our partners had a temporary condition that left her unable to
speak louder than a whisper. Much to her surprise, when she spoke, others would respond …

Previous studies have found that talkers converge or diverge in phonetic form during a
single conversational session or as a result of long-term exposure to a particular linguistic …

Recent research has been concerned with whether speech accommodation is an automatic
process or determined by social factors (eg Trudgill 2008). This paper investigates phonetic …