Resonance and engagement through (dis-)agreement: Evidence of persistent constructional priming from Mandarin naturalistic interaction

Tantucci, Vittorio; Wang, Aiqing

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2021.01.002

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“…Corpus data, by contrast has the potential to reveal whether priming is significantly associated with semantic-pragmatic dimensions that arise 'on the fly' through spontaneous conversation, and not as the result of artificially designed stimuli (cf. Tantucci & Wang 2021). In this sense, the present study is designed to account for all forms of syntactic and phonological priming across turn-takings throughout two balanced corpora of dialogic interaction.…”

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Resonance as an Applied Predictor of Cross-Cultural Interaction: Constructional Priming in Mandarin and American English Interaction

Tantucci

Wang

2021

Applied Linguistics

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In Dialogic syntax (cf. Du Bois 2014; Tantucci et al. 2018), naturalistic interaction is inherently grounded in resonance, viz. the catalytic activation of affinities across turns (Du Bois and Giora 2014). Resonance occurs dynamically when interlocutors creatively coconstruct utterances that are formally and phonetically similar to the utterance of a prior speaker. In this study, we argue that such similarity can inform the machine learning prediction of linguistic and cross-cultural diversity. We compared two sets of 1,000 exchanges involving (dis)-agreement from the two balanced Callhome corpora of naturalistic interaction in Mandarin Chinese and American English. We found a correlation of overt use of pragmatic markers with resonance, indicating that priming does not occur as an exclusively implicit mechanism (as it is commonly held in the experimental literature e.g. Bock 1986; Bock et al. 2007), but naturalistically underpins dialogic engagement and cooperation among interactants. We fitted a mixed effects linear regression and a hierarchical clustering model to show that resonance occurs formally and functionally in different ways from one language to another. The applied results of this study can lead to a novel turn in AI research of conversational interfaces (McTear et al. 2016; Klopfenstein et al. 2017), as they reveal the fundamental role played cross-linguistically by resonance as a form of engagement of human-to-human interaction and the importance to address this mechanism in machine-to-human communication.

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Section: Structural Vs Constructional Primingmentioning

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“…This phenomenon has been defined as resonance (cf. Du Bois 2014; Tantucci et al 2018;Tantucci & Wang 2021) and involves the on-going repetition or creative variation of a linguistic item that occurs in some previous or on-going turn of spontaneous interaction.…”

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Resonance as an Applied Predictor of Cross-Cultural Interaction: Constructional Priming in Mandarin and American English Interaction

Tantucci

Wang

2021

Applied Linguistics

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“…As we have mentioned, few studies have directly looked into the discourse factors in the syntactic encoding beyond a single sentence. Granted, a number of studies have reported structural priming effects situated in natural speech (Branigan et al, 2000;Chia et al, 2019Chia et al, , 2020Gries, 2005;Levelt & Kelter, 1982;Tantucci & Wang, 2021), which suggests syntactic persistence across utterances is an indispensable mechanism that underlies our daily communication (see Pickering & Garrod, 2004 for a discussion). These studies, however, did not test whether speakers flexibly adapt their syntactic encoding to the discourse constraints.…”

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The effects of discourse coherence on the persistence of sentence structures.

Zhang,

Bernolet,

Hartsuiker

2024

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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We studied the role of discourse coherence relations on structure formulation in sentence production by examining whether a connective, an essential signal of coherence relations, modulates the tendency for speakers to reuse sentence structures (i.e., structural priming). We further examined three possible modulating factors: the type of connectives (additive vs. adversative connective), event similarity (similar event vs. different event), and topic cohesion (with or without available anaphoric antecedent). In four structural priming experiments, native Dutch participants were asked to read either a Dutch double object sentence or a prepositional object sentence and describe pictures that depicted ditransitive events. Critically, the prime and the target either were linked by a connective (en “and” or maar “but”) or were not linked. The verb overlap between the prime and the target was also manipulated. In Experiment 1, the presence of en facilitated structural priming, but only when the verbs were different. In Experiment 2, maar reduced structural priming when the verbs were repeated. Experiment 3 replicated the findings of Experiments 1 and 2 in a within-subjects design. In Experiment 4, there was no referential link between the sentences. Now there was no connective effect on structural priming. Taken together, we demonstrated that the insertion of a connective influences syntactic persistence. The connective effects vary across semantic properties of the connectives, event similarity, and referential continuity, suggesting that the production of sentence structure is modulated by speakers’ prediction about listeners’ inference of coherence relations between consecutive utterances.

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“…Perhaps because of the relatively young age of the discipline, there have been very few attempts to go beyond this and to explore the role of more complex statistical techniques in elucidating the multifaceted relationships between language, context, and speakers that are of key interest to pragmatics. Most of these studies tend to deal with phenomena in pragmatics such as discourse markers and turn-taking (e.g., Rühlemann & Gries, 2020, 2021, and interactive alignment and dialogic resonance (e.g., Oben & Brône, 2016;Tantucci & Wang, 2021, but less so with speech acts (but see Tantucci & Wang, 2018and Van Olmen & Tantucci, 2022on expressives, and Flöck & Geluykens, 2018 on requests, which also provides a conversation analytic perspective). We believe that the application of these methods to speech acts in particular, which we use in the present study, is an important step forward in corpus pragmatics research.…”

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“…These students and researchers might be interested in approaches to speech acts where their observations of the communicative functions of the speech acts are based on a large number of examples extracted from different contexts. They may also be interested in considering the interlocutor's behaviour relative to each other and particularly the addressee's response, which is often neglected at the expense of data from large, multimillion-word corpora and numbers from off-the-shelf software tools (for exceptions in research on turn-taking, see Rühlemann, 2017, and on dialogic resonance, see Tantucci & Wang, 2021). Our approach embraces both of these research agendas without compromising the scientific rigour of either, but rather elevating the capacity of corpus pragmatics to provide answers to previously unexplored questions about speech acts in spoken dialogue.…”

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Advice in Conversation

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Felice²,

Paradis³

2022

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This Element is a contribution to a new generation of corpus pragmatics research by taking as its starting point the multifaceted nature of speech acts in conversation, and by adopting a mixed-methods approach. Through a unique combination of theoretical, qualitative, quantitative, and statistical approaches, it provides a detailed investigation of advice-giving and advice uptake in relation to (i) the range of constructions used to give advice in different discourse contexts and at different points in time, and (ii) their interaction with dialogic and social factors of advice uptake as key components of frames of advice exchanges in natural conversation. Using data from the London-Lund Corpora of spoken British English, the Element shows, firstly, that there are systematic differences in advising between discourse contexts over the past half a century, and, secondly, that who gave the advice and how they did it are the strongest predictors of the advisee's response. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Resonance and engagement through (dis-)agreement: Evidence of persistent constructional priming from Mandarin naturalistic interaction

Cited by 12 publications

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Resonance as an Applied Predictor of Cross-Cultural Interaction: Constructional Priming in Mandarin and American English Interaction

Resonance as an Applied Predictor of Cross-Cultural Interaction: Constructional Priming in Mandarin and American English Interaction

The effects of discourse coherence on the persistence of sentence structures.

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