Studies of Spanish grammatical gender have shown that native speakers exploit gender
cues in determiners to facilitate speech processing and are sensitive to gender mismatches …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art
of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established …

This paper utilised bibliometric and scientometric indicators to assess the current state of
research in psycholinguistics. A total of 32,586 documents in psycholinguistics were …

Contending with talker variability has been found to lead to processing costs but also
benefits by focusing learners on invariant properties of the signal, indicating that talker …

The current study responds to the call for increased dialogue among different areas of
additional language research. Specifically, we bring together learner corpus research and …

This chapter discusses recent findings that demonstrate how variability in the linguistic
experiences of bilingual speakers and in the ability of bilingual speakers to learn from these …

This study investigates the influence of individual social-cognitive propensity in the
processing of nontransparent sentential meaning, exemplified by the morpho-syntactically …

Abstract Words sound slightly different each time they are said, both by the same talker and
across talkers. Rather than hurting learning, lab studies suggest that talker variability helps …

We investigate the role of two possible sets of factors, cognitive and social, in modulating an
individual's linguistic context-sensitivity: the capacity of a neurocognitive system to identify …

Abstract Language change often leads to the merger of phonemic categories, but the
addition of new categories is rarely attested. In the Spanish city of Seville, as in other cities …