The field of third language acquisition has gathered increased attention over the last three
decades. However, phonological acquisition in an L3 is still relatively understudied within …

Abstract Effects of vocal accommodation have been reported in a wide range of contexts, but
they have typically been small. The absence of effects in some cases has proven perplexing …

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 …

The present study examines the perceived L1 accent of two groups of native Spaniards in
the United Kingdom, Spanish teachers, and non-teachers, alongside monolingual controls …

This study examines the plasticity of native language intonation in English-Austrian German
sequential bilinguals who have migrated to Austria in adulthood by comparing it to that of …

The purpose of this investigation was to trace first (L1) and second language (L2) segmental
speech development in the Austrian German–English late bilingual Arnold Schwarzenegger …

This paper reports on a comprehensive phonetic study of American classroom learners of
Russian, investigating the influence of the second language (L2) on the first language (L1) …

Two acoustic studies were carried out with L1 Polish learners of English. One study
examined L1 phonetic drift, comparing learners of L2 English who were undergoing …

While much research has examined second language (L2) phonetic acquisition, less
research has examined first language (L1) attrition in terms of the voice onset time (VOT) of …

Previous studies investigating the acquisition of L2 stops have found a positive effect of L2
experience, but few have focused on voiced stops, particularly on prevoicing. This study …