Fundamental to all human languages is an unlimited expressive capacity and creative
flexibility that allow speakers to rapidly generate novel and complex utterances. In turn …

The imitation paradigm (Goldinger, 1998) has shown that speakers shift their production
phonetically in the direction of the imitated speech, indicating the use of episodic traces in …

Previous studies have found that talkers converge or diverge in phonetic form during a
single conversational session or as a result of long-term exposure to a particular linguistic …

Recent research has been concerned with whether speech accommodation is an automatic
process or determined by social factors (eg Trudgill 2008). This paper investigates phonetic …

Spoken words are highly variable. A single word may never be uttered the same way twice.
As listeners, we regularly encounter speakers of different ages, genders, and accents …

Interest in the phonetics of sound change is as old as scientific linguistics (Osthoff and
Brugman 1878). The prevalent view is that a key component of sound change is what …

This study explores phonetic convergence during conversations between pairs of talkers
with varying language distance. Specifically, we examined conversations within two native …

Numerous studies have documented the phenomenon of phonetic imitation: the process by
which the production patterns of an individual become more similar on some phonetic or …

Previous research has argued that fundamental frequency is a critical component of
phonetic accommodation. We tested this hypothesis in an auditory naming task with two …

Although formulated by Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog in 1968, the actuation problem has
remained an unsolved problem in understanding sound change: if sound change is …