Complexity matching and lexical matching in monolingual and bilingual conversations

Schneider, Sara; Ramirez-Aristizabal, Adolfo G.; Gavilan, Carol; Kello, Christopher T.

doi:10.1017/s1366728919000774

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“…If clusters of events are hierarchically nested (i.e., clusters at the shortest timescales build up into bigger clusters at the longer timescales), A(T) will grow exponentially with T. If they are not, or if they stop being nested after a certain timescale, the relationship between A(T) and T will be flat across timescales. As has been observed before in speech signals (Falk & Kello, 2017;Kello et al, 2017;Schneider et al, 2020), the AF functions of our parent-child interactions showed flattening at the longer timescales (see Figure 3, right-side panels, for an example). We fit a second order polynomial to each dyad's AF functions to account for such curvature (mean R 2 =.90); statistical analyses were then conducted on the linear component consistent with previous studies .…”

Section: Acoustic Analysessupporting

confidence: 85%

Child Language and Autism Diagnosis Impact Hierarchical Temporal Structure of Parent-Child Vocal Interactions in Early Childhood

Boorom¹,

Alviar²,

Zhang³

et al. 2022

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Timing is critical to successful social interactions. This study investigated temporal structure of vocal interactions longitudinally in parent-child dyads of typically developing (TD) infants (n=49; 9-18 months; 48% male; 81.6% white) and toddlers with ASD (n=23; 27.2±5.0 months; 91.3% male; 65.2% White). Acoustic hierarchical temporal structure (HTS; event clustering across multiple time scales), which reflects temporal complexity and variability, was measured in free play interactions using Allan Factor. Child expressive language significantly predicted HTS (ß=-0.2) longitudinally across TD infants: greater dyadic HTS was associated with lower child language. ASD dyads exhibited greater HTS than nonverbal matched (d=0.41) and expressive language matched TD dyads (d=0.28). Results provide a new window into how language development and social attunement shape parent-child interaction dynamics.

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Child Language and Autism Diagnosis Impact Hierarchical Temporal Structure of Parent-Child Vocal Interactions in Early Childhood

Boorom¹,

Alviar²,

Zhang³

et al. 2022

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“…The AF function category most relevant to the current discussion corresponds to conversational interactions. In 75 and two subsequent studies 76,77 , dozens of recordings of various types of conversational interactions, in both English and Spanish, have all yielded AF functions with a common slope and bend. While it is possible that the same AF function shape could be generated in other ways, observations to date establish a diagnostic relationship between a particular shape and conversational interaction.…”

Section: Rhythm As Temporal Hierarchy In Human and Non-human Vocalizamentioning

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Evolution of speech rhythm: a cross-species perspective

Ravignani

Bella

Falk

et al. 2019

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Cognition and communication, at the core of human speech rhythm, do not leave a fossil record. However, if the purpose is to understand the origin and evolution of speech rhythm, alternative methods are available. A powerful tool is comparative approach: studying the presence or absence of cognitive/behavioral traits in other species, drawing conclusions on which traits are shared between species, and which are recent human inventions. Here we apply this approach to traits related to human speech rhythm. Many species exhibit temporal structure in their vocalizations but little is known about the range of rhythmic structures perceived and produced, their biological and developmental bases, and communicative functions. We review the literatures on human and non-human studies of rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations to survey similarities and differences. We report important links between vocal perception and motor coordination, and the differentiation of rhythm based on hierarchical temporal structure. We extend this review to quantitative techniques useful for computing rhythmic structure in acoustic sequences and hence facilitating cross-species research. While still far from a full comparative cross-species perspective of speech rhythm, we are closer to fitting missing pieces of the puzzle.

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“…We have highlighted here the potential of multimodal interaction for investigating semantic convergence and divergence. Multilingual interaction (Costa et al, 2008;Gries & Kootstra, 2017;Schneider et al, 2019) offers another promising and understudied environment in which these dimensions can be teased apart to varying degrees.…”

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Alignment in multimodal interaction: An integrative framework

Rasenberg¹,

Asli²,

Dingemanse³

2020

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When people are engaged in social interaction, they often repeat each other’s communicative behavior, such as words or gestures. This kind of alignment has been studied across a wide range of disciplines and has been accounted for by diverging theories. In this paper, we review various operationalizations of lexical and gestural alignment. We reveal that scholars have fundamentally different takes on when and how behavior is considered to be aligned, which makes it difficult to compare findings and draw uniform conclusions. Furthermore, we show that scholars tend to focus on one particular dimension of alignment (traditionally, whether two instances of behavior overlap in form), yet underspecify, conflate or neglect other dimensions. This stands in the way of proper theory testing and building, which requires a well-defined account of the factors that are central to or might enhance alignment. To capture the complex nature of alignment, we identify five key dimensions to formalize the relationship between any pair of behavior: sequence, time, semantics, form and modality. We show how assumptions regarding the underlying mechanism of alignment (categorized into priming versus grounding) pattern together with the operationalization in terms of the five dimensions. This conceptual framework can help researchers in the field of alignment and related phenomena (including behavior matching, mimicry, entrainment and accommodation) to formulate their hypotheses and operationalizations in a more transparent and systematic manner. The framework also enables us to discover unexplored research avenues and derive new hypotheses from existing theories.

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Complexity matching and lexical matching in monolingual and bilingual conversations

Cited by 13 publications

References 65 publications

Child Language and Autism Diagnosis Impact Hierarchical Temporal Structure of Parent-Child Vocal Interactions in Early Childhood

Child Language and Autism Diagnosis Impact Hierarchical Temporal Structure of Parent-Child Vocal Interactions in Early Childhood

Evolution of speech rhythm: a cross-species perspective

Alignment in multimodal interaction: An integrative framework

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