Within the majority of English-speaking settings, children learning English as an additional
language (CLEAL) underperform academically relative to their monolingual, English …

In the generative literature, the pattern of coronal fricative lenition found in the traditional
Chinato Spanish dialect is commonly cited as a phonological argument that the …

This dissertation aims, on the one hand, at investigating primary and secondary stress
assignment in Italian and German, specifically with respect to the influence of syllable …

This study investigates a neglected aspect of second language acquisition. It compares the
timing patterns adopted by speakers of English as a foreign language with those of English …

Children's early word learning and the factors which affect their language development have
long been the focus of many researchers, with emphasis placed on how the context in which …