A series of experiments shows that Spanish learners of English acquire the ship-sheep
contrast in a way specific to their target dialect (Scottish or Southern British English) and that …

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 …

We present a test of a revised version of the Second Language Linguistic Perception (L2LP)
model, a computational model of the acquisition of second language (L2) speech perception …

The lexical and phonetic map** of auditorily confusable L2 nonwords was examined by
teaching L2 learners novel words and by later examining their word recognition using an …

The author introduces the L2 Linguistic Perception (L2LP) model, a new formal and
comprehensive proposal which integrates, synthesizes, and improves on previous studies …

Language lies at the heart of the way we think, communicate and view the world. Most
people on this planet are in some sense multilingual. The Multilingual Mind explores, within …

The purpose of this study was to investigate phonological attrition in 10 native Albanian
speakers who acquired Standard Southern British English (SSBE) as a second language …

The book, written by a multilingual parent, educator and linguist, describes three siblings'
apportioning of linguistic and cultural space among three languages: Portuguese, Swedish …

We investigated whether regional differences in the native language (L1) influence the
perception of second language (L2) sounds. Many cross-language and L2 perception …

It is well known that adult learners have great difficulty when attempting to learn the sounds
of a second language (L2), as observed in the phenomenon commonly known as “foreign …