This article focuses on the uncertainty surrounding the issue of the Critical Period
Hypothesis. It puts forward the case that, with regard to naturalistic situations, the hypothesis …

Language fundamentally defines and distinguishes us as humans, as members of society,
and as individuals. As we go through life, our relationship with language and with learning …

Migration, among the most important sociocultural phenomena of contemporary global
societies, is complex, dynamic, and multifaceted. At the heart of migration is language, the …

Based on a field experiment conducted in Germany between October 2014 and October
2015, this article focuses on the disadvantages associated with the presence of a foreign …

In this work, we expand the discussion of bias in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
through a large-scale audit. Using a large and global data set of speech, we perform an …

Although there is now a substantial body of literature exploring the effects of language
diversity in international management contexts, little attention has been paid to the ethical …

Background As more people around the globe become immigrants or refugees, an
increasingly popular subsection of research has aimed to investigate how these populations …

Past research has identified discriminatory automatic speech recognition (ASR)
performance as a function of the racial group and nationality of the speaker. In this paper, we …

Delivery of English language programmes to children at younger ages is a remarkable
phenomenon around the world. This research adopts a language-in-education framework to …

The present paper aims at highlighting the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) in Second
Language Acquisition (SLA) which suggests that the individuals' attempts to learn a second …