{"pk":28874,"title":"Speaker-specific adaptationto variable use of uncertainty expressions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Speakers exhibit variability in their choice between uncertaintyexpressions such as might and probably. Recent work hasfound that listeners cope with such variability by updating theirexpectations about how a specific speaker uses uncertainty ex-pressions when interacting with a single speaker. However, itis still unclear to what extent listeners form speaker-specificexpectations for multiple speakers and to what extent listenersare adapting to a situation independent of the speakers. Here,we take a first step towards answering these questions. In Ex-periment 1, listeners formed speaker-specific expectations af-ter being exposed to two speakers whose use of uncertaintyexpressions differed. In Experiment 2, listeners who were ex-posed to two speakers with identical use of uncertainty expres-sions formed considerably stronger expectations than in Exper-iment 1. This suggests that listeners form both speaker-specificand situation-specific expectations. We discuss the implica-tions of these results for theories of adaptation.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"psycholinguistics; semantics; pragmatics; adapta-tion; uncertainty expressions"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bz715sm","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sebastian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schuster","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Judith","middle_name":"","last_name":"Degen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28874/galley/18745/download/"}]}