Entrainment, dominance and alliance in supreme court hearings

A major goal of the Cognitive Infocommunication approach is to develop applications in which human and artificial cognitive systems are made to work more effectively. A critical step in this process is improving our understanding of human–human interaction so that it may be modeled more closely. Our work addresses this task by examining the role of entrainment – the propensity of conversational partners to behave like one another – in (1) the production of conversational fillers (CFs) and acoustic intensity; (2) patterns of turn-taking; and (3) Linguistic Style.