Lexical entrainment reflects a stable individual trait: Implications for individual differences in language processing.
Anita Tobar-Henríquez, Hugh Rabagliati, Holly P. Branigan · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition · 2019
), which is a key phenomenon for the psycholinguistics of dialogue. Online participants completed two sessions of a picture matching-and-naming task, using different pictures and different (scripted) partners in each session. Entrainment was measured as the proportion of trials on which participants followed their partner in using a low-frequency name, and we assessed reliability by comparing entrainment scores across sessions. The estimated reliability was substantial, both when sessions were separated by minutes and when sessions were a week apart. These results suggest that our instrument is well-suited for differential analyses, opening new avenues for understanding language variability. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).