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Commentary: L2 Phonology: Where Theory, Data, and Methods Meet [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Christine E. Shea, Christine E. Shea
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Overt and covert contrast in L2 phonology. [PDF]

J Second Lang Pronunciation, 2015
This paper reports results on the acquisition of the English /p/–/b/ contrast by native speakers of Arabic. This contrast does not exist in the participants’ native language (NL). The central finding of this study is that some of the research participants exhibited a covert contrast between these segments in their interlanguage productions.
Eckman FR, Iverson GK, Song JY.
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Editorial: L2 Phonology Meets L2 Pronunciation [PDF]

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
John Archibald, Mary Grantham O’Brien, Andrew Sewell   +2 more
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The proximate phonological unit of Chinese-English bilinguals: proficiency matters. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
An essential step to create phonology according to the language production model by Levelt, Roelofs and Meyer is to assemble phonemes into a metrical frame.
Rinus Gerardus Verdonschot, Mariko Nakayama, Qingfang Zhang, Katsuo Tamaoka, Niels Olaf Schiller   +4 more
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Production of voice onset time (VOT) by senior Polish learners of English

Open Linguistics, 2021
Although research on foreign language learning among seniors has recently accelerated, studies on L2 phonology in this age group remain scarce. Seniors may be at a great disadvantage when it comes to learning the sounds of a foreign language because age ...
Sypiańska Jolanta
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Ease and Difficulty in L2 Phonology: A Mini-Review

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
A variety of phonological explanations have been proposed to account for why some sounds are harder to learn than others. In this mini-review, we review such theoretical constructs and models as markedness (including the markedness differential ...
John Archibald
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L2 Proficiency Level Influences Loanword Adaptation: Variable Adaptation of English Co-occurrence of Low Vowel and Nasal Into Mandarin

SAGE Open, 2023
As the most commonly established and attested language contact phenomenon, loanwords, also known as lexical borrowings, may undergo transformations when borrowed from the source language (SL) to the borrowing language (BL).
Wei Wang
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An Emerging Area in Second Language Phonology: The Perception of English Vowels by Adult Second Language Learners

Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2006
Although the field of second language acquisition (SLA) has largely advanced over the last few decades, the area of second language (L2) phonology has not been a focus of many studies.
Juri Matsubara
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Can L2 Pronunciation Be Evaluated without Reference to a Native Model? Pillai Scores for the Intrinsic Evaluation of L2 Vowels

Languages, 2023
In this article, we explore the possibility of evaluating L2 pronunciation, and, more specifically, L2 vowels, without referring to a native model, i.e., intrinsically.
Paolo Mairano, Fabián Santiago, Leonardo Contreras Roa   +2 more
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The Role of Theory in SLA Empirical Research on the Critical Period Hypothesis

Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2021
This paper sets out to peruse the role of various theories or more precisely, hypotheses invoked in SLA research by surveying three empirical studies pertaining to the critical period hypothesis in the SLA of phonetics and phonology.
Paige Yi
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