Temporal entrainment in overlapped speech: Cross-linguistic study

摘要

In a previous paper we investigated how onsets of overlapped speech in English are timed with respect to syllable boundaries of the current speaker [1]. Overlap initiations were found to be more frequent around syllable boundaries than at other locations within the syllable. In this paper we extend the previous analysis by reporting on results from two other corpora in two different languages (French and German). We found similar trends in all three dataseis with an increased likelihood of an overlap initiation shortly before vowel onsets in the interlocutores speech.