Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

Models such as Eckman's markedness differential hypothesis, Flege's speech learning
model, and Brown's feature-based theory of perception seek to explain and predict the …

This article seeks to illuminate the degree of position-based variation observed in the
acquisition of new segments in a second language and to explain such variability as the …

The book analyzes the articulatory motivation of several adaptation processes (place
assimilations, blending, coarticulation) involving consecutive consonants in heterosyllabic …

This paper addresses the relation between syllable structure and inter-segmental temporal
coordination. The data examined are Electromagnetic Articulometry recordings from six …

This study analyzes cross-dialectal phonetic variation in Spanish complex onsets in light of
recent work on the phonetics–phonology interface. Two basic patterns of obstruent-rhotic …

We examined gestural coordination in C1C2 (C1 stop, C2 lateral or tap) word initial clusters
using articulatory (electromagnetic articulometry) and acoustic data from six speakers of …

Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española, in its extensively revised and
updated second edition, shows how recent theoretical and methodological advances have …

Gradient reduction in coda consonant articulation occurs cross-linguistically. We investigate
here the possibility of lesser constriction in French and Spanish lateral codas compared to …

Louisiana is home to the oldest French-speaking communities in the United States. After
more than three centuries of existence in the lower Mississippi Valley, however, the survival …