This animated GIF shows an agent-based model animation in 3-D DCT space of F2 Shown are six 3-D plots of the DCT space (DCT coefficients 0-2) of the second formant F2: Memory data of young speakers are shown on top, the data of older speakers below. Each dot represents a memory token of an agent (i.e. the memorized F2 trajectory) for the vowels /i:7, /ju:/ and /u:/; the grey dots are the memory tokens at the begin of the simulation; the red dots are updated memory tokens. The simulation runs over 80000 random interaction between 11 young and 11 older agents; each agent carries a constant set of 6 word types containing the vowels /i:/, /ju:/and /u:/ with 10 tokens each. Plots are updated after 1000 random interactions; after 80000 interaction the animation starts anew. Watch the red dots in relation to the grey. What you see here: The trajectories of /i:/ do not differ very much in the initial state (grey) and stay stable for both speaker groups (red, left panels). The trajectories of /ju:/ for the young speakers remain quite stable (upper mid), while for the older speakers most updated tokens move into the area of the younger speakers' group (lower mid). The trajectories of the /u:/ spreads out a little for the younger speaker but stays in the same location; the trajectories of the older speakers move into the area of the young speakers (right panels).