Sociological research on vocal dynamics demonstrates that as actors engage in conversation, their vocal frequencies tend to converge over time. Previous scholars have theorized that patterns of vocal accommodation serve as a mechanism through which speakers non-consciously communicate perceptions of each other’s relative status. In this article I discuss existing evidence linking vocal accommodation to status perceptions. Next, I report results from a laboratory experiment in which I test the proposed causal link between status and vocal accommodation by randomly assigning members of dyadic task groups to occupy either a higher or lower status position and assessing patterns of vocal accommodation. Results support the theorized causal relationship between group status structure and vocal accommodation. I argue that, as an unobtrusive and non-conscious indicator of status, vocal accommodation is a valuable, yet underused tool for assessing group status structures in a wide variety of situations and regarding many substantive sociological questions.

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小团体的地位和声乐住宿

关于声音动力学的社会学研究表明，随着演员进行对话，他们的声音频率会随着时间趋于收敛。以前的学者认为，声音调节的模式是一种机制，通过这种机制，说话者可以无意识地交流对彼此相对状态的看法。在本文中，我将讨论将声音调节与状态感知联系起来的现有证据。接下来，我报告了一个实验室实验的结果，在该实验中，我通过随机分配二进制任务组的成员占据较高或较低的地位位置并评估声音适应模式，来测试状态与声音适应之间的拟议因果关系。结果支持了群体地位结构和人声调节之间的理论因果关系。我认为