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 …

Based on an innovative corpus-based approach, this book offers a comprehensive survey of
the phonological and phonetic properties of L2 speech in English and German. The first part …

In this paper, I discuss a linguistic model for explaining native and secondlanguage (L2)
sound perception. In § 2, I discuss the Linguistic Perception (LP) model for general sound …

We show that loanword adaptation can be understood entirely in terms of phonological and
phonetic comprehension and production mechanisms in the first language. We provide …

This paper reconciles the standpoint that language users do not aim at improving their
sound systems with the observation that languages seem to improve their sound systems. If …

There have been numerous studies investigating the perception of non-native sounds by
listeners with different first language (L1) backgrounds. However, research needs to expand …

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

This paper shows how one can formalize the phonology-phonetics interface within
constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) or Harmonic Grammar (HG) …

The past ten years have shown an ever-increasing revival of interest in phonological
acquisition. The introduction of Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993) has played …

Is is customary that the first person to be mentioned here is one's supervisor. But even if it
wasn't, Curt Rice would have to occupy the first hundred or so pages of any …