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 …

It is proposed that failure to consistently produce inflectional morphology by Mandarin-
speaking learners of English is due to properties of the LI prosodic phonology which are …

Although sociolinguists working within the variationist tradition have become increasingly
interested in the interactions between varieties of English and Spanish spoken in the United …

This paper discusses the notion of incomplete acquisition in post-puberty second language
learning and in simultaneous or sequential bilingualism in childhood. The following issues …

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 …

It has been argued that obstruent-liquid (OL) clusters constitute the optimal branching onset
(Clements 1990, among others). As concerns French and Spanish in particular, these …

The position that languages require both coda and onset options for the syllabification of
word-final consonants is adopted. The latter option is further divided into languages where …

This article explores the role of transfer and Universal Grammar (UG) in second language
(L2) phonology by investigating the L2 acquisition of stress/prominence in footless …

This thesis investigates the representation and acquisition of word-level stress in Turkish.
Two general proposals are made in the thesis, one related to formal phonology, the other …

In this article, a number of broad questions related to the acquisition of consonant clusters in
a second language are investigated. Drawing on the structural relations and phonological …