While previous research shows that bilinguals' ability to mix and switch between two
separate languages is influenced by both cross-language similarity and language use …

Spoken language conveys rich sociolinguistic information about a speaker's language
background. Previous research indicates that both monolingual and bilingual children use …

Perceptual difficulties associated with unfamiliar talkers or accents are known to dissipate—
sometimes within minutes of exposure. How do the adaptive changes in perception evolve …

Listeners use more than just acoustic information when processing speech. Social
information, such as a speaker's perceived race or ethnicity, can also affect the processing of …

Die relative Bedeutung unterschiedlicher Einflussfaktoren wurde anhand eines
RandomForest-Klassifizierungsmodells berechnet. Dabei zeigte sich, dass die Schulart die …

Perception of second language (L2) speakers and their speech is known to be influenced
both by phonetic and by sociolinguistic factors. The existing body of scholarly research on …

A listener's ability to accurately understand speech can be affected by racial and ethnic
information about the speaker. For example, the presentation of an East Asian versus a …

The present study examined whether race information about speakers can promote rapid
and generalizable perceptual adaptation to second-language accent. First-language …

The paper aims at identifying common features in various fields of sociolinguistic research
which would help rationalize methodological procedures and increase their efficiency. To …

This study assesses the effects of heterogeneous speech input on ratings of children's words
and vowels. First, we examined whether exposure to a certain accent type or to different …