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The Mixed Effects of Phonetic Input Variability on Relative Ease of L2 Learning: Evidence from English Learners’ Production of French and Spanish Stop-Rhotic Clusters

Languages, 2018
We examined the consequences of within-category phonetic variability in the input on non-native learners’ production accuracy. Following previous empirical research on the L2 acquisition of phonetics and the lexicon, we tested the hypothesis that ...
Laura Colantoni, Jeffrey Steele
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Long‐Term Speech Outcomes in Moderate‐to‐Severe Childhood Speech Sound Disorder: A Systematic Review

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Parents of children with moderate‐to‐severe speech sound disorder presenting to clinic want to understand prognosis for their child; however, there is unclear evidence as to the specific long‐term speech outcomes in this group.
Alexandra J. Garrett, Sermin Tukel, Angela T. Morgan   +2 more
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Investigating residual rhoticity in a non-rhotic accent [PDF]

, 2007
This paper reports on preliminary findings of a study conducted in the Black Country area of the west midlands of England. The small number of linguistic studies carried out in this region in the last 40 years have not found evidence of the continuing existence of variable rhoticity in the local speech variety.
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Consonant clusters and rhotic variation in Costa Rican Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
This study examines the phonetic realization of consonant clusters involving the alveolar tap (/Cɾ/ and /ɾC/) in Costa Rican Spanish, a variety known for rhotic variation.
Felix Fonseca Quesada
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Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 177-192, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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Acquisition of the Tap-Trill Contrast by L1 Mandarin–L2 English–L3 Spanish Speakers

Languages, 2018
The goals of this study were to investigate the developmental patterns of acquisition of the Spanish tap and trill by L1 Mandarin⁻L2 English⁻L3 Spanish speakers, and to examine the extent to which the L1 and the L2 influenced the L3 ...
Matthew Patience
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Rhotic variation and contrast in veracruz Mexican Spanish

Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2012
  Phonetic studies of Spanish rhotics report a wide range of allophonic variants of the syllable-initial trill /r/, which raises the question of whether the intervocalic contrast between /r/ and the tap /ɾ/ has been neutralized in many dialects. This
Travis G. Bradley, Erik W. Willis
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Nigerian English: History, functions and features

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 7-18, March 2026.
Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Sopuruchi Christian Aboh   +1 more
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Phonetic Diversity vs. Sociolinguistic and Phonological Patterning of R in Québec French

Languages
In this study, we investigate the multifaceted realizations of the /R/ consonant in Québec French (QF) by combining sociolinguistic and phonological approaches.
Mathilde Hutin, Mélanie Lancien
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