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In Part II, Linguistics and Neurolinguistics, we will start with the issue of having an accent in a language. After examining the phonetic and prosodic characteristics of accents, we will present the main factors that account for having an accent – from traditional ones such as maturational aspects to more recent ones such as type and amount of language input. We will also address having an accent in a third language. This will be followed by a chapter on language loss, in adults and in children. As concerns adults, we will cover characteristics of attrition, and go in search of factors that account for language loss. For children, we will describe experimental studies that attempt to see if there are remnants of a language forgotten in very early childhood. We will end with two studies, already quite old, that appear to show that a lost language may be recovered under hypnosis. Finally, the third chapter in this part concerns bilinguals with aphasia, that is those bilinguals who suffer language and speech impairment due to brain damage. We will discuss patterns of language recovery and the factors that account for them. We will also examine language mixing in the speech of aphasic bilinguals and show that it is not always a sign of pathology.