In this overview we describe literature on how speech production and speech perception
change in healthy or normal aging across the adult lifespan. In the production section we …

Research on age-related changes in speech has primarily focused on comparing “young”
vs.“elderly” adults. Yet, listeners are able to guess talker age more accurately than a binary …

The perception of temporal contrasts in speech is known to be influenced by the speech rate
in the surrounding context. This rate-dependent perception is suggested to involve general …

Understanding the changes in our language abilities along the lifespan is a crucial step for
understanding the aging process both in normal and in abnormal circumstances. Besides …

This study is concerned with whether an asymmetric phonetic overlap between speaker
groups contributes to the directional spread of sound change. An acoustic analysis of …

We present a multidimensional acoustic report describing variation in speech productions
on data collected from 500 francophone adult speakers (20 to 93 yoa) as a function of age …

To deal with variation in the speech signal, listeners rely on local context, such as speaking
rate in a carrier sentence directly preceding a target, as well as more global properties of the …

Speech is notoriously variable, with no simple map** from acoustics to linguistically-
meaningful units like words and phonemes. Empirical research on this theoretically central …

Names: Beaman, Karen V., editor.| Buchstaller, Isabelle, editor. Title: Language variation
and language change across the lifespan: theoretical and empirical perspectives from panel …

Longitudinal analyses in which the speech data from the same individuals is resampled over
a long time interval have provided increasing evidence that there can be phonetic shifts …