2019/09/02 by Mingzhi Yu, Yu, Mingzhi, Diane Litman +3
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Team Dynamics and Performance
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1909.00867
openalex created_date 2019/06/07 · openalex publication_date 2019/09/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Multi-party linguistic entrainment refers to the phenomenon that speakers tend to speak more similarly during conversation. We first developed new measures of multi-party entrainment on features describing linguistic style, and then examined the relationship between entrainment and team characteristics in terms of gender composition, team size, and diversity. Next, we predicted the perception of team social outcomes using multi-party linguistic entrainment and team characteristics with a hierarchical regression model. We found that teams with greater gender diversity had higher minimum convergence than teams with less gender diversity. Entrainment contributed significantly to predicting perceived team social outcomes both alone and controlling for team characteristics.