Papers by Rivka Levitan
“Talk to me with left, right, and angles”: Lexical entrainment in spoken Hebrew dialogue (2021.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | entrainment is a widespread phenomenon in human interaction that leads interlocutors to adapt their linguistic productions to become more similar to each other. |
| Approach: | They propose to use existing measures to analyze Hebrew speakers interacting in a Map Task to find evidence of lexical entrainment. |
| Outcome: | The proposed study is the first to examine lexical entrainment in Hebrew using two existing measures. |
Looking for Structure in Lexical and Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment Behaviors (N18-2)
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| Challenge: | Entrainment is the tendency of human interlocutors to adapt their behavior to each other to become more similar. |
| Approach: | They propose to use acoustic-prosodic and lexical entrainment to measure speakers' overall entraining behaviors and search for an underlying structure. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method does not find any significant correlations, clusters, or principal components in various entrainment measures. |
The Brooklyn Multi-Interaction Corpus for Analyzing Variation in Entrainment Behavior (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Entrainment is the phenomenon of conversational partners adapting to one another to become more similar. |
| Approach: | They propose to use dyadic conversations to identify speaker traits and conversation contexts that cause variations in entrainment behavior. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus identifies speaker traits and conversation contexts that cause variations in entrainment behavior. |