It's alignment all the way down, but not all the way up: Speakers align on some features but not others within a dialogue

Rachel Ostrand, Eleanor Chodroff

Abstract: Highlights•Speakers modulate their production to match their interlocutors’, called alignment.•We assess several individual features of syntactic and acoustic-phonetic alignment.•We also compute a holistic measure using machine learning on 323 individual phonetic features.•Speakers aligned on some but not all features within a linguistic level.•Speakers aligned at some linguistic levels but not others within the same dialogue.