ALIGN: Analyzing Linguistic Interactions With Generalizable techNiques-A Python Library
ALIGN: Analyzing Linguistic Interactions With Generalizable techNiques-A Python Library
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DOI：
10.1037/met0000206
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发表时间：
2019-08-01
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7
通讯作者：
Fusaroli, Riccardo
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作者：
Duran, Nicholas D.;Paxton, Alexandra;Fusaroli, Riccardo
语言对齐（LA）是在会话过程中重复使用对方语言表达的倾向，包括词汇，概念或句法结构。LA通常被认为是相互理解和人际关系的关键驱动力，尽管其确切的动力和影响仍然存在争议。对这些影响进行更系统调查的一个障碍在于用于分析LA的方法的多样性，这使得难以整合和比较单个研究的结果。为了克服这个问题，我们开发了ALIGN（Analyzing Linguistic Interactions with Generalizable techNiques），这是一个开源Python包，用于测量会话中的LA（https：//pypi.python.org/pypi/align），沿着ALIGN的GitHub存储库上托管的深入开源教程（https：//github.com/nickduran/pag-linguistic-alignment）。在这里，我们首先描述的挑战，在LA的研究，并概述如何ALIGN可以解决这些问题。然后，我们展示了如何使用复杂的对话语料库将我们的分析协议应用于理论驱动的问题（魔鬼代言人语料库; Duran & Fusaroli，2017）。最后，我们确定了进一步的挑战，并指出了该领域的未来发展。
Linguistic alignment (LA) is the tendency during a conversation to reuse each other's linguistic expressions, including lexical, conceptual, or syntactic structures. LA is often argued to be a crucial driver in reciprocal understanding and interpersonal rapport, though its precise dynamics and effects are still controversial. One barrier to more systematic investigation of these effects lies in the diversity in the methods employed to analyze LA, which makes it difficult to integrate and compare results of individual studies. To overcome this issue, we have developed ALIGN (Analyzing Linguistic Interactions with Generalizable techNiques), an open-source Python package to measure LA in conversation (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/align) along with in-depth open-source tutorials hosted on ALIGN's GitHub repository (https://github.com/nickduran/align-linguistic-alignment). Here, we first describe the challenges in the study of LA and outline how ALIGN can address them. We then demonstrate how our analytical protocol can be applied to theory-driven questions using a complex corpus of dialogue (the Devil's Advocate corpus; Duran & Fusaroli, 2017). We close by identifying further challenges and point to future developments of the field.