Background Children who are bilingual and have speech sound disorder are likely to be
under‐referred, possibly due to confusion about typical speech acquisition in bilingual …

Elicited imitation (EI) has been widely used to examine second language (L2) proficiency
and development and was an especially popular method in the 1970s and early 1980s …

This chapter presents a working model of L2 intonation learning, the L2 Intonation Learning
theory (LILt), which ultimately aims to account for the difficulties that L2 learners encounter in …

Using Priming Methods in Second Language Research is an accessible introduction to the
use of auditory, semantic, and syntactic priming methods for second language (L2) …

Given the controversies surrounding the critical period hypothesis on second-language (L2)
learning outcomes, this study focuses on the phonological aspect of language acquisition …

Where native speakers supposedly are fluent by default, nonnative speakers often have to
strive hard to achieve a nativelike fluency level. However, disfluencies (such as pauses …

Mastering the pronunciation of a second language (L2) is considered extremely difficult, and
few individuals succeed in sounding like a native speaker when learning a L2 in adulthood …

This study investigates Spanish heritage speakers' perception and production of Spanish
lexical stress. Stress minimal pairs in various prosodic contexts were used to examine …

The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second
language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of …

This study examines pitch range production in the read speech of female German second
language (L2) learners of English of moderate to advanced proficiency. The study set out to …