Jia Loy (CLE, University of Edinburgh)<\/em><\/p>\n Tuesday, February 26 It has been proposed that languages with more nonnative speakers are simpler due to native speakers’ adjustments towards nonnative interlocutors. However, experimental evidence of the adaptive mechanisms at play in natural language is lacking. In this talk I present a set of experiments investigating the degree of adaptation in native English speakers towards their nonnative conversation partner. I discuss two mechanisms that have been attributed to speaker adaptation — priming, which emphasises an automatic, unconscious tendency to repeat recent information; and listener-oriented processes, which propose that speakers strategically adapt to specific interlocutors. Our results suggest that native speakers exhibit greater adaptation towards nonnative interlocutors only when the communicative context induces an inference about their partner\u2019s linguistic ability. I discuss the implications of these results with respect to the two mechanisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adaptation may depend on perceived linguistic knowledge: Evidence from priming with native and nonnative interlocutors Jia Loy (CLE, University of Edinburgh) Tuesday, February 26 11:30am \u2013 12:30pm G.32, 7 George Square It has been proposed that languages with more nonnative speakers are simpler due to native speakers’ adjustments towards nonnative interlocutors. However, experimental evidence of … Continue reading 26 February: Jia Loy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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