Syntactic variability between and within speakers: When to adapt, when to generalize?

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Verbs vary in their tendency to appear in different structures and previous work shows that listeners learn new verb biases from exposure to new co-occurrence statistics In 4 experiments, we explore the context-specificity of this learning. We report novel results that 1) listeners can learn verb-general, speaker-specific structural preferences via exposure to speaker-structure co-occurrences; 2) listeners learn verb-specific, speaker-general structural biases from exposure to 2 speakers with identical biases; 3) listeners do not appear to learn simultaneous verb- and speaker-specific biases from exposure to 3-way bindings of speaker, verb, and structure.

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