Greek-Australian bilinguals match the VOTs of Greek and Australian English native speakers depending on language context

![CDATA[Fluent bilinguals frequently adjust their speech to match the linguistic setting. Linguistic context effects impact on the bilingual’s selection of language-specific lexical items, morphological units, and syntactic settings when speaking. We would expect such contextual effects may appear even in the phonetic settings of bilinguals’ speech production where those differ between their languages. While context effects have been addressed in theories of bilingual word selection, lexical and syntactic code switching and other higher-order aspects of language use (Green, 1998; Grosjean, 2001), they have barely been touched by theories of phonetics and phonology. For example, the Speech Learning Model (Flege, 1995), which attempts to predict foreign-accented speech in second language learners, says nothing about whether/how bilinguals will shift their production of speech depending on the linguistic context. Moreover, only a few cross-language studies have investigated the influence that linguistic context can exert on bilingual speech production (Caramazza, Yeni-Komshian, Zurif, & Carbone, 1973; Flege & Eefting, 1987; Hazan & Boulakia, 1993; Magloire & Green, 1999). Those few have provided mixed results, possibly due to methodological differences and limitations.]]