Second Language Acquisition at the Phonetic-Phonological Interface: A proposal

Rapid phonetic drift in second language acquisition

This paper is concerned with the nature and time course of phonetic drift in one’s first language during acquisition of a second language. In a longitudinal study of native English speakers’ acquisition of Korean, 20 late learners produced the same English and Korean items at weekly intervals over the course of intensive beginning Korean language classes. Results of acoustic analyses indicate t...

Second Language Acquisition and Phonological Change

Second Language Acquisition and First Language Phonological Modification

While many second language (L2) acquisition studies analyze the effects that the first language (L1) has on L2 development, less common are studies that examine the converse situation: does acquisition of an L2 impact the L1? This study examines the effects of L2 acquisition on L1 use by looking at the L1 phonological productions of advanced L2 learners vis-à-vis the production of monolingual s...

Phonetic and phonological factors in the perception of syllables in second-language speech 145 Phonetic and phonological factors in the perception of syllables in second-language speech*

The goal of the present study is to investigate the degree to which native Japanese speakers’ perception of syllables in spoken English words is affected by various phonetic and phonological factors. Specifically, the present study examined whether Japanese listeners’ perception of English syllables is affected not just by phonological factors such as syllable complexity, but also by acoustic-p...

Orthographic Input and the Acquisition of Second Language Phonological Forms