Dialect examples from our project

10 main sets of findings so far:

1. Hyperarticulation
   1. Adapting speaking after evidence of misrecognition: Global and local hyperarticulation.
   2. Effects of speakers’ mental models of an addressee upon hyperarticulation.
2. Dialect convergence in a conversational task.
3. Prosodic disambiguation and audience design.
4. Perception and representation of phonological variation.
5. Adjusting to another's speech: Perceptual and cognitive effects.
6. Effects of knowing two languages on lexical activation.
7. The impact of individual differences in working memory on language use during conversation.
8. Effects of common ground on spontaneous co-speech gesture.
9. Building surface realizers automatically from corpora using general-purpose tools.
10. Automatic evaluation of referring expression generation using corpora.

2 dialog systems:

1. The Rate-a-Course System
2. The RavenCalendar System

1. Adaptive shifts in planning strategies: monologue vs. dialog.
2. Audience design and working memory capacity.
3. The impact of gesture on recovery from conversational interruptions.
4. A cross-linguistic comparison of beat gestures.