Purpose: This scoping review considers the acoustic features of a clear speech register
directed to nonnative listeners known as foreigner-directed speech (FDS). We identify vowel …

Conversational entrainment, also known as alignment, accommodation, convergence, and
coordination, is broadly defined as similarity of communicative behavior between …

In language comprehension, listeners expect a speaker to be consistent in their word choice
for labeling the same object. For instance, if a speaker previously refers to a piece of …

Lexical alignment, a communication phenomenon where conversational partners adapt their
word choices to become more similar, plays an important role in the development of …

Over the past decade, people's language behaviors towards computer partners have been
capturing growing interests with the prevalence of interaction with dialogue systems …

In what is known as lexical alignment in dialogue, speakers tend to re-use their interlocutor's
prior lexical expressions, probably in an attempt to facilitate ease and success of …

In dialogue, speakers process a great deal of information, take and give the floor to each
other, and plan and adjust their contributions on the fly. Despite the level of coordination and …

This paper presents an analysis of interactive alignment (Pickering & Garrod, 2004) from a
multimodal perspective (Guichon & Tellier, 2017) in two telecollaborative settings. We …

Across languages, words carve up the world of experience in different ways. For example,
English lacks an equivalent to the Chinese superordinate noun tiáowèipǐn, which is loosely …

During the production of spoken sentences, the linearisation of a'thought'is accomplished
via the process of grammatical encoding, ie, the building of a hierarchical syntactic frame …