Entrainment in spoken Hebrew dialogues

Andreas Weise, Vered Silber-Varod, Anat Lerner, Julia Hirschberg, Rivka Levitan

Abstract: Highlights•Hebrew speakers entrain similarly at turn exchanges as Indo-European speakers do.•Hebrew speakers show more divergent behavior, especially mixed sex speaker pairs.•Beyond that, speaker sex has no consistent influence on entrainment behavior.•Adaptation on a global level, of mean feature values, is virtually absent.•Speakers in dependent roles match their interlocutors more closely than vice versa.