Even the most seemingly monolingual places are shaped in space and time by different
languages meeting. Most often, when languages meet, they are brought together by humans …

This study investigates the phenomenon of language interference in Arabic learning at
Darullughah Wadda'dawah (DALWA) Islamic Boarding School in Bangil, Pasuruan. It …

This study investigates the production of Arabic intervocalic geminate obstruents as
produced by American L2 learners of Arabic. The participants of the study were 24 Arabic …

This dissertation investigates the development of the sound system (s) of a balanced
trilingual (3L1) child acquiring Standard German, Swiss German and Italian simultaneously …

This paper considers the differences in producing the acoustic correlates of the phonemic
alveolar tap/R/, phonemic canonical trill/r/, and alveolar approximant/ô/in two groups of …

The Spanish voiced palatal obstruent/ʝ/is orthographically represented as⟨ y⟩ or⟨ ll⟩. The
most closely related sound in English is/j/, which is often written with⟨ y⟩, but produced with …

Early language exposure is crucial for acquiring native mastery of the phonology of a
language. Multilingual exposure results in enhanced phonetic and phonological learning …

Several studies have investigated the perception of the singleton/geminate contrast in
various languages; however, there is sparse literature on the possible …

This study explores the phenomenon of language attrition (Schmid & Kooke, 2007, Celata &
Cancilla, 2010; Chang, 2012; De Leeuw, Tusha & Schmid, 2017). Specifically, we …

In this study, we explore the possible effect of linguistic attrition on consonant gemination
among speakers of Italian living in Australia. We analyse a corpus of spontaneous speech …