Previous research with highly fluent, very early, Catalan–Spanish bilinguals has shown that
L1 Spanish bilinguals accept certain mispronounced Catalan words at extremely high rates …

Previous studies have suggested that nonnative (L2) linguistic sounds are accommodated to
native language (L1) phonemic categories. However, this conclusion may be compromised …

There is considerable debate about whether bilinguals can distinguish L2 phonemic
contrasts as efficiently as first language speakers can. To test this issue, a group of highly …

There is ample evidence that native and non-native listeners use lexical knowledge to
retune their native phonetic categories following ambiguous pronunciations. The present …

Word-initial/s/-consonant clusters do not occur in Spanish. Confronted with such sequences
(eg, in loanwords), Spanish speakers tend to perceive an illusory initial/e/,'repairing'the illicit …

Bilinguals understand when the communication context calls for speaking a particular
language and can switch from speaking one language to speaking the other based on such …

This study examines the perception and processing of the Catalan/e/–/ɛ/and/o/–/ɔ/vowel
contrasts by 60 Spanish–Catalan bilinguals in Majorca (Spain). Results from binary forced …

Bilingual speakers must acquire the phonemic inventory of 2 languages and need to
recognize spoken words cross-linguistically; a demanding job potentially made even more …

This study examined how the phonetic details of the phonological systems for two different
nativelanguage listener groups interact with their perception of the phonetic details of three …

Language-specific restrictions on sound sequences in words can lead to automatic
perceptual repair of illicit sound sequences. As an example, no Spanish words begin with/s …