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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Speech Perception

Background:

  • Listeners adapt to speech variability, typically focusing on phonology.
  • Adaptation to talker identity often involves learning sound patterns.
  • This study explores adaptation to more abstract linguistic features.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if listeners learn the association between talker identity and syntactic attachment style.
  • To determine if abstract, structural properties of speech influence comprehension based on speaker.

Main Methods:

  • A visual-world experiment using spoken sentences with syntactically ambiguous relative clauses.
  • Participants heard sentences with specific attachment preferences linked to distinct talker identities.
  • Exposure involved sentences where one talker consistently used high attachment and another used low attachment.

Main Results:

  • Listeners learned to predict the 'appropriate' syntactic attachment based on talker identity for novel sentences.
  • No attachment preference was observed for a talker who produced both high and low attachments.
  • This indicates listeners can link talker identity to abstract syntactic styles.

Conclusions:

  • Listeners can learn and utilize the relationship between talker identity and abstract syntactic properties of speech.
  • Syntactic attachment decisions during language comprehension are sensitive to talker-specific styles.
  • This suggests a sophisticated level of adaptation in speech processing.