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 …

This study analyzes the social evaluations of the Andalusian Spanish ceceo merger and its
split, distinción. A matched-guise experiment was created by digitally manipulating …

Previous literature has documented phonetic accommodation for various segmental and
suprasegmental features, but the accommodation of tone remains under-explored. The …

In line with a growing body of literature suggesting that mergers are reversible given the
adequate dialect contact and social context, the present study examines the phonetic split of …

The two languages of a bilingual speaker are interconnected and mutually influence
linguistic forms and structures. This study presents a case in which two languages in contact …

Differential affective processing has been widely documented for bilinguals: L1 affective
words elicit higher levels of arousal and stronger emotionality ratings than L2 affective words …

In some languages, breathy voice plays a pivotal role in tone split. After tone split, breathy
voice can undergo further changes. Suzhou Wu Chinese used to have a voicing contrast in …

In tone languages, some case studies showed that the word-level tonal representation was
closely related to the underlying metrical pattern. Based on different tonal patterns in …

The current study investigated the merger-in-progress between word-initial nasal and lateral
consonants in Fuzhou Min, examining the linguistic and social factors that modulate the …

Abstract In certain contexts, Present Day Standard Danish displays an unusual pattern of
alternations between voiceless stops and semivowels often referred to as stop gradation …