Lexical Entrainment in Spontaneous Dialog Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1130997, abstract = {It is often desirable to predict or constrain the lexical choices people make with spoken language systems. I discuss lexical variability in language use; while there is a great deal of variability across conversations, there is little within. In conversation, people achieve conceptual pacts, or shared conceptualizations, which they mark by using the same terms; this process of lexical entrainment limits and systematizes lexical variability (Brennan \& Clark, 1996). In text and speech dialogs with computer systems, people often adopt the systems' terms; this process shares some aspects in common with lexical entrainment, and it differs in some ways as well. After summarizing five experiments on lexical variability with human partners and computers, I present some implications of this work for spoken language systems.}, author = {Brennan, Susan E.}, booktitle = {International Symposium on Spoken Dialog}, citeulike-article-id = {1130997}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/brennan96lexical.html}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://citeseer.lcs.mit.edu/brennan96lexical.html}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://citeseer.ifi.unizh.ch/brennan96lexical.html}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://citeseer.comp.nus.edu.sg/brennan96lexical.html}, keywords = {\_d\_, conceptual-pacts, conversation, conversational-dynamics, empirical}, pages = {41--44}, posted-at = {2007-02-28 18:16:26}, priority = {3}, title = {Lexical Entrainment in Spontaneous Dialog}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/brennan96lexical.html}, year = {1996} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1130997 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1130997 N2 - It is often desirable to predict or constrain the lexical choices people make with spoken language systems. I discuss lexical variability in language use; while there is a great deal of variability across conversations, there is little within. In conversation, people achieve conceptual pacts, or shared conceptualizations, which they mark by using the same terms; this process of lexical entrainment limits and systematizes lexical variability (Brennan & Clark, 1996). In text and speech dialogs with computer systems, people often adopt the systems' terms; this process shares some aspects in common with lexical entrainment, and it differs in some ways as well. After summarizing five experiments on lexical variability with human partners and computers, I present some implications of this work for spoken language systems. EP - 44 TI - Lexical Entrainment in Spontaneous Dialog T2 - International Symposium on Spoken Dialog SP - 41 KW - _d_ KW - conceptual-pacts KW - conversation KW - conversational-dynamics KW - empirical AU - Brennan, Susan PY - 1996/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/brennan96lexical.html ER -