A Cross-lingual Comparison of Human and Classification Model Entrainment Behavior in Code-switched Speech Settings

arXiv:2607.25202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational entrainment is well-studied in monolingual and written contexts, but remains underexplored in spoken code-switching (CSW). We present a novel cross-lingual analysis of entrainment in Mandarin-English, Hindi-English, and Spanish-English dialogue and show that, while lexical entrainment generalizes across language pairs, entrainment over acoustic-prosodic and CSW style aspects exhibits context-specific variation. We build on these find...