Speech-style accommodation correlates with prevalence of other-oriented transactions, enabling acoustic prediction of transactivity¶

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q2 i? Gweon, Jain, McDonough, Raj and Rosé argue that a measure of speech-style accommodation should positively correlate with prevalence of other-oriented transactions, so acoustic analysis can predict a level of transactive reasoning. → Gerry Stahl 2013

Evidence¶

Gerry Stahl 2013¶

Gerry Stahl. (2013). Transactive discourse in CSCL. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 8:145–147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-013-9171-6

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Editorial description of the Gweon et al. approach to automatically assessing transactivity in a spoken-discourse corpus via data-mining of thin descriptions such as acoustical features. The claim is presented as an argued implication from social psychology and sociolinguistics of speech style.

"people tend to accommodate certain acoustic characteristics of their speech — such as variation and average levels of pitch, intensity of speech or the amount of silence and duration of speech — to that of their partner to roughly the same extent that they engage in building on their partner 's reasoning."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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