The study of bilingualism and multilingualism has gained increasing prominence in the
context of globalization. As a result, research on code switching has garnered growing …

This article presents an overview of recent research on the phonetics of early bilinguals,
individuals who have acquired both of their languages early in life, by either growing up …

The present study examines the acoustic realization of the English, Japanese, and
Spanish/k/in the productions of two groups of English-Japanese bilinguals [first language …

This paper analyzes the comparability of language dominance assessments with the
purpose of determining whether they yield similar results. Language dominance is an …

This chapter synthesises some of the main findings from research investigating cross-
language influence (CLI) in Second Language (L2) and Third Language (L3) speech …

A large literature has shown that language context–mixing and switching between
languages–impacts lexical access processes during bilingual speech production. Recent …

A significant measure of pedagogical scholarship on English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
higher education teaching and learning commonly prioritizes a 'tips and tricks' approach to …

A recent model of sound change posits that the direction of change is determined, at least in
part, by the distribution of variation within speech communities. We explore this model in the …

Speakers learning a second language show systematic differences from native speakers in
the retrieval, planning, and articulation of speech. A key challenge in examining the …

While crosslinguistic influence is widespread in bilingual speech production, it is less clear
which aspects of representation are shared across languages, if any. Most prior work …