LLMs syntactically adapt their language use to their conversational partner

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07457v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:37:07 GMT
• Title: LLMs syntactically adapt their language use to their conversational partner
• Authors: Florian Kandra, Vera Demberg, Alexander Koller,
• Abstract summary: It has been frequently observed that human speakers align their language use with each other during conversations.<n>We construct a corpus of conversations between large language models (LLMs) and find that two LLM agents end up making more similar syntactic choices as conversations go on.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: It has been frequently observed that human speakers align their language use with each other during conversations. In this paper, we study empirically whether large language models (LLMs) exhibit the same behavior of conversational adaptation. We construct a corpus of conversations between LLMs and find that two LLM agents end up making more similar syntactic choices as conversations go on, confirming that modern LLMs adapt their language use to their conversational partners in at least a rudimentary way.

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