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Assessing Rhotic Production by Bilingual Spanish Speakers
Languages, 2020 Due to its articulatory precision, the Spanish rhotic system is generally acquired in late childhood by monolingually-raised (L1) Spanish speakers. Heritage speakers and second language (L2) learners, unlike L1 speakers, risk an incomplete acquisition of
Laura D. Cummings Ruiz, Silvina Montrul
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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 426-438, September 2026.ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
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Stigma, self‐styling and ‘forced accents’ among English L2 speakers in Spain
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 468-484, September 2026.Abstract This paper examines the relationship between shame, stigma and accent for non‐native English speakers in Spain. The low English competence of the Spanish population frequently constitutes a source of individual and collective stigma – which includes the apparent undesirability of Spanish‐sounding English.
Eva Codó, Carly Collins
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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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Labiodentals /r/ here to stay: Deep learning shows us why
Anglophonia, 2020 The secondary labial articulation which accompanies the post-alveolar approximant /r/ in English has attracted far less attention from linguists than the primary lingual one.
Hannah King, Emmanuel Ferragne
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 426-448, September 2026.Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 680-703, September 2026.Abstract We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English‐as‐a‐first‐language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia.
Yizhou Wang +4 more
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 2, August 2026.ABSTRACT Word‐final position is widely recognized as a structurally weak and restricted domain, yet languages differ strikingly in how they regulate segments and clusters at the right edge. While some systems categorically prohibit final consonants, others allow only a subset of segments, and still others impose process‐based adjustments such as final ...
Semra Baturay Meral
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Bavarian German r-Flapping: Evidence for a dialect-specific sonority hierarchy
Glossa, 2019 In certain varieties of Bavarian German, where both liquids vocalize in the syllable coda, word-final sequences of /ʀl/ are realized with a flapped r as the onset to a syllable with nuclear syllabic l ([l̩]).
Erin Noelliste
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A Phonetic Examination of Rhotics: Gestural Representation Accounts for Phonological Behaviour [PDF]
, 2018 There is phonological evidence that rhotics form a natural class of sounds (Walsh-Dickey, 1997). However, the articulatory and acoustic properties that are common across all rhotics have been difficult to identify (Lindau, 1985; Ladefoged Maddieson ...
Howson, Philip James
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