Language style matching and verbal intelligence

In this paper language style matching of speakers yielding different verbal intelligence was analyzed. The work is based on a corpus consisting of 100 descriptions of a short film (monologues), 56 discussions about the same topic (dialogues) and verbal intelligence scores of the test persons. According to the results, higher verbal intelligent speakers showed a greater degree of language style matching when describing the film and were able to better adapt to their dialogue partners compared to lower verbal intelligent participants.