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Phonetic Accommodation

Phonetic Accommodation is a linguistic phenomenon within the field of communication accommodation theory, wherein a speaker systematically adjusts their phonetic features—such as pronunciation, intonation, or speech rate—to converge toward or diverge from those of an interlocutor in order to manage social identity or interpersonal rapport.

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Speech Accommodation Theory: The First Decade and Beyond

Howard Giles, Anthony Mulac, James J. Bradac et al. · Annals of the International Communication Association · 1987 · 395 citations

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Dialect divergence and convergence in New Zealand English

Molly Babel · Language in Society · 2010 · 308 citations · Full text

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Gender Differences in Vocal Accommodation:

Laura L. Namy, Lynne C. Nygaard, Denise Sauerteig · Journal of Language and Social Psychology · 2002 · 239 citations

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Perceptual learning in speech: Stability over time

Frank Eisner, James M. McQueen · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2006 · 231 citations · Full text

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The Role of Fundamental Frequency in Phonetic Accommodation

Molly Babel, Dasha Bulatov · Language and Speech · 2011 · 147 citations

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Authors

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  1. MB
    Molly Babel

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    5 publications · 684 citations

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  2. BM
    Bernd Möbius

    University of Stuttgart, Germany

    3 publications · 68 citations

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  3. JS
    Jennifer S. Pardo

    Montclair State University, United States

    3 publications · 138 citations

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  4. KJ
    Kyle Jasmin

    University College London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 88 citations

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  5. IS
    Ingmar Steiner

    Saarland University, Germany

    2 publications · 37 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    608 citations

  2. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    726 citations

  3. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    330 citations

  4. Montclair State University

    Montclair, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    138 citations

  5. Saarland University

    Saarbrücken, Germany

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    142 citations

  6. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    24 citations

  7. New York University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    107 citations

  8. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    54 citations

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  1. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

    JASA · 3 publications · 256 citations

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  2. Frontiers in Psychology

    3 publications · 166 citations

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  3. Journal of Phonetics

    3 publications · 61 citations

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  4. eScholarship (California Digital Library)

    Repository · 2 publications · 150 citations

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  5. Language and Speech

    2 publications · 204 citations

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