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 …

In spite of burgeoning evidence that the orthographic forms (“spellings”) of second language
(L2) words affect L2 learners' pronunciation, little is known about the pronunciation of known …

There is growing evidence that exposure to orthographic input affects second language
phonological acquisition. This study examined the effects of auditory–orthographic …

L1 French participants learned novel L2 English words over two days of learning sessions,
with half of the words presented with their orthographic forms (Audio-Ortho) and half without …

Research on third language (L3) phonological acquisition has shown that Cross-Linguistic
Influence (CLI) plays a role not only in forming the newly acquired language but also in …

This study has three goals. First, it examines phonological attrition of the Arabic geminate
(ie, long sound)-singleton contrast in the speech of native speakers of Arabic who acquired …

The main goal of this study was to determine whether the geminate-singleton consonant
length contrast attrites across three different generations of Farsi-English-speaking …

Recent studies have provided evidence for both a positive and a negative effect of
orthography on second language speech learning. However, not much is known about …

This thesis investigates the role of articulatory difficulty (AD) in the acquisition of L2 Spanish
by L1 English speakers. Previous work has revealed that AD is one of the primary sources of …

This study investigates resyllabification errors made by Vietnamese learners of Korean,
utilizing an L2 speech corpus known as" A Collection of Foreigners' Korean Speech Data for …