# Prosodic entrainment in dialog acts

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12646 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.12646/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 30 Oct 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Towards a Real-time Measure of the Perception of Anthropomorphism in Human-robot Interaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.09595/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We examined prosodic entrainment in spoken dialogs separately for several dialog acts in cooperative and competitive games. Entrainment was measured for intonation features derived from a superpositional intonation stylization as well as for rhythm features. The found differences can be related to the cooperative or competitive nature of the game, as well as to dialog act properties as its intrinsic authority, supportiveness and distributional characteristics. In cooperative games dialog acts with a high authority given by knowledge and with a high frequency showed the most entrainment. The results are discussed amongst others with respect to the degree of active entrainment control in cooperative behavior.