ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2026
Alignment Development Is Not a Unitary Phenomenon: A Comparison of Speech Rate and Lexical Alignment in Children.
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Abstract
purposeConversational alignment, the phenomenon in which interlocutors exhibit similar communicative behaviors as one another, has been documented across many levels of communication. There has been a growing recognition of the need to understand the relationship between alignment at various levels. Here, we add to the body of literature by exploring the trajectories of alignment development at different communication levels in children. Using a conversational corpus in which early school-aged children demonstrated robust lexical alignment, we examined whether they also demonstrated similar patterns of speech rate alignment.
methodIn this corpus, children (
resultsLinear mixed-effects models showed that the children did not align their speech rates across multiple contexts (i.e., different partners and tasks). Furthermore, there was no relationship between lexical and speech rate alignment.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that alignment development in children is not a unitary phenomenon. Rather, alignment at different levels of communication may require different underlying skills and may be driven by different levels of automaticity.
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