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    "pk": 25657,
    "title": "Syntactic Alignment is an Index of A?ective Alignment:\nAn Information-Theoretical Study of Natural Dialogue",
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    "abstract": "We present an analysis of a treebank of spontaneous\nEnglish dyadic conversations, investigating whether the\ndegree of syntactic priming found across speakers is a\nfunction of the degrees of a?ective alignment and over-\nall positivity of the speakers. We use information theory\nto measure the proportion of overlap between the syn-\ntactic structures of the speakers. The a?ective state of\nthe speakers is indexed by aggregated measures of the\na?ective valences of the words they use. We ?nd that\nthere is a positive relation between syntactic priming\nand a?ective alignment, over and above any lexical rep-\netition e?ects. This constitutes evidence for the percola-\ntion of inter-speaker alignment across multiple levels of\nrepresentation. This also illustrates the indexical value\nof syntactic alignment, as has been proposed in modern\nfunctional theories of grammar such as Dialogic Syntax.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "A\u000bective Alignment; Corpus Study; Infor-\nmation Theory; Natural Dialogue; Spoken Language;\nSyntactic Priming; Treebank; Resonance; Valence"
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    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Fermin",
            "middle_name": "Moscoso del Prado",
            "last_name": "Martin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Santa Barbara",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "John",
            "middle_name": "W",
            "last_name": "Du Bois",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Santa Barbara",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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