Abstract
The aim of this study is to find out how conversation role affects prosodic entrainment in Mandarin interactions. Tongji Games Corpus are adopted for this study, in which two interlocutors play unequal roles in Picture Ordering Games (information giver and information follower), and equal roles in Picture Classifying Games. Based on this corpus, two tests are conducted in this study, the Role Influence Test and Role Direction Test. In the analysis of Role Influence Test, it is found that the entrainment degree in Picture Ordering Games is significantly bigger than that in the Picture Classifying Games. In the analysis of Role Direction Test, it is found that information givers entrain more to followers in conversation. These findings provide evidences that conversation roles, as one type of the social factors, have influence on the degree and direction of prosodic entrainment in Mandarin interactions.
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