A Review of the Research on Linguistic Prosody in Conversation Entrainment

Abstract

Having conversation is a joint action in which interacting individuals coordinate their behavior and adapt their linguistic choices to each other in order to make smooth and successful communication. This coordination or adaptation is called entrainment. In daily conversation, interlocutors entrain at linguistic or nonlinguistic levels. The present research focuses on linguistic prosody in entrainment, and reviews the theoretical and empirical studies of linguistic prosody in conversation entrainment in order to supply references for future studies in the similar fields.