Social groups are a pervasive feature of human life. One factor that is often understudied in
the literature on person perception and social categorization is language. Yet, someone's …

The study of non‐human animals, in particular primates, can provide essential insights into
language evolution. A critical element of language is vocal production learning, ie learning …

This study consolidates findings on phonetic convergence in a large-scale examination of
the impacts of talker sex, word frequency, and model talkers on multiple measures of …

In the first decades of the 21st century, exemplar theory has fueled an explosion of
theoretical and empirical work in speech production. We review the foundations for this …

Studies into phonetic adaptation rarely consider individual differences (IDs) on a cognitive
and personality level between speakers as a direct source of adaptation variation. In order to …

This introductory article for the Special Issue on Vocal Accommodation in Speech
Communication provides an overview of prevailing theories of vocal accommodation and …

Twenty women from Christchurch, New Zealand and 16 from Columbus Ohio (dialect region
US Midland) participated in a bimodal lexical naming task where they repeated …

The Interface Principle posits that morphosyntactic variation does not elicit the same kinds of
perceptual reactions as phonetic variables because “members of the speech community …

This paper reviews current experimental approaches to sound change. An ongoing
challenge in sound change research is to link the initiation of sound change within individual …

The actuation problem asks why a linguistic change occurs in a particular language at a
particular time and space. Responses to this problem are multifaceted. This review …