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Publication details [#53112]

Pickering, Martin J., Holly P. Branigan, Jamie Pearson and Janet F. McLean. 2010. Linguistic alignment between people and computers. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (9) : 2355–2368.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | communicative success | human communication | human-machine conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study considers how mechanisms leading to linguistic alignment might be involved in human–computer interaction (HCI). It reveals that linguistic alignment in HCI occurs, and even stronger than in human conversation, with a broader mediated component which aims at increasing communicative success.