In this overview we describe literature on how speech production and speech perception
change in healthy or normal aging across the adult lifespan. In the production section we …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

Abstract Effects of vocal accommodation have been reported in a wide range of contexts, but
they have typically been small. The absence of effects in some cases has proven perplexing …

Even the most seemingly monolingual places are shaped in space and time by different
languages meeting. Most often, when languages meet, they are brought together by humans …

The focus of the study is an agent-based model (ABM) concerned with simulating
phonological stability and change using real speech data from a population of speakers. At …

Names: Beaman, Karen V., editor.| Buchstaller, Isabelle, editor. Title: Language variation
and language change across the lifespan: theoretical and empirical perspectives from panel …

The present study examines the perceived L1 accent of two groups of native Spaniards in
the United Kingdom, Spanish teachers, and non-teachers, alongside monolingual controls …

The main point of this introduction, and therefore of the special issue, is to reveal and
emphasise research findings which show that the domains of phonetics and phonology are …

This study examines the plasticity of native language intonation in English-Austrian German
sequential bilinguals who have migrated to Austria in adulthood by comparing it to that of …

We investigated whether expression of social meaning operationalized as individual gender
identitity and politeness moderated pitch range in the two languages of female and male …