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title = "Multi-party Conversational Corpus of {L}1 and {L}2 for Speech Alignment Research (Teams-{SK}): Methodological Approach",
author = {Benus, Stefan and
Gatial, Viktor and
Gy{\"o}rgy, Erik and
Hrickov{\'a}, M{\'a}ria and
Ka{\v{z}}im{\'i}r, Martin and
Koz{\'a}{\v{c}}ikov{\'a}, Zuzana and
Marekov{\'a}, Lucia and
Sabo, R{\'o}bert and
Trnka, Marian and
Vr{\'a}b, Erik},
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.519/",
doi = "10.63317/3qzsztq7ab7m",
pages = "6536--6546",
abstract = "The tendency for speakers to align or accommodate their verbal and non-verbal behaviour to their interlocutors is a fundamental mechanism in spoken interaction, strongly associated with successful communication and social bonding. Despite its ubiquity and documentation across various modalities and linguistic levels (e.g., lexical, prosodic), a lack of comparable, multi-layered linguistic resources and methodological agreement prevents a deeper understanding of its cognitive mechanisms. Multidimensional view of speech alignment might enhance its application in areas like language training or human-machine interaction. This paper addresses these gaps by presenting the development of a multilingual corpus of L1 Slovak and L2 English speech, extending a comparable corpus in L1 English. The corpus utilizes a modified cooperative board game, Forbidden Island, to elicit semi-spontaneous, multi-party conversation and introduces a complementary pair game to specifically target and prime syntactic alignment. The resource includes psychological metadata (e.g., personality, anxiety, perceived dominance) and enables a reproducible methodology for investigating the relationship between entrainment patterns and individual characteristics. By providing a non-Germanic language perspective and a direct L1{--}L2 comparison framework at prosodic, lexical, pragmatic and syntactic levels, this corpus offers a rich resource for advancing the theoretical understanding, replication, and practical application of speech alignment."
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%A Benus, Stefan
%A Gatial, Viktor
%A György, Erik
%A Hricková, Mária
%A Kažimír, Martin
%A Kozáčiková, Zuzana
%A Mareková, Lucia
%A Sabo, Róbert
%A Trnka, Marian
%A Vráb, Erik
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Markdown (Informal)
[Multi-party Conversational Corpus of L1 and L2 for Speech Alignment Research (Teams-SK): Methodological Approach](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.519/) (Benus et al., LREC 2026)
ACL
- Stefan Benus, Viktor Gatial, Erik György, Mária Hricková, Martin Kažimír, Zuzana Kozáčiková, Lucia Mareková, Róbert Sabo, Marian Trnka, and Erik Vráb. 2026. Multi-party Conversational Corpus of L1 and L2 for Speech Alignment Research (Teams-SK): Methodological Approach. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 6536–6546, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.