Giulio Severijnen is a PhD student at the Donders Center for Cognition [DCC], part of the Donders Institute at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His supervisors are Prof. James McQueen and Dr. Hans Rutger Bosker. His project investigates between-talker and within-talker variability in prosody production, with a specific focus on lexical stress. Moreover, he also tests how listeners flexibly adapt to this variability in order to successfully comprehend different talkers. The project is funded through a ‘Donders Internal PhD Round’ grant, awarded to Prof. James McQueen, Dr. Hans Rutger Bosker, and Dr. Ashley Lewis.