ISCA Archive issp 2024
ISCA Archive issp 2024

Examining the Link between the Perception and Production of Phonetic Convergence of Laughter in Interaction

Marin Schröer, Bogdan Ludusan

Convergence, i.e. the process of two people adjusting their behaviour to become more similar to each other, has been found in most aspects of human interaction by now. However, most of the studies investigating convergence have so far considered mostly linguistic aspects while taking into account only production or perception rather than both. In this paper, we expand on previous work to examine paralinguistic phenomena, namely laughter, by integrating an analysis of differences between several acoustic cues extracted from laughter in spontaneous interaction with a perceptual experiment in order to determine their perceptual relevance.