Short-term and long-term adaptive changes in prosodic comprehension.

= 424) adaptation experiment using a two-session paradigm in which listeners go through a pretest, exposure, posttest sequence in the first session, in which exposure and feedback disambiguate an ambiguous prosodic contour as a question or a statement in a between-participants manner. They were then invited back on the 2nd day after a delay of 3, 5, or 7 days to repeat the same sequence. The results provide novel evidence that adaptation is both rapid and stable. Listeners showed robust adaptation within the first few trials of exposure in the first session, and they maintained some adaptive shift even after a delay of up to 7 days. This finding extends the scientific knowledge about the longevity of adaptive shifts seen across levels of speech hierarchy. We discuss possible memory mechanisms that support the long-term maintenance of cross-talker adaptation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).