This paper reports findings of an experiment investigating the vocalisation and the
realisation of post-vocalic/r/in varieties of English and German. The study aims to explore …

This study investigates to what degree, and in what manner, the L1 and L2 (s) influence
spoken French L3. The analysis is divided in two parts. The first examines the cross …

This paper presents an auditory and acoustic study of postvocalic/r/in 12 working-class
Glaswegian male speakers, young and old. The results support the view that a process of …

Compared to monolinguals, multilingual learners possess a larger repertoire of phonetic-
phonological parameters, have a higher degree of language and meta-linguistic awareness …

Scottish English is often cited as a rhotic dialect of English. However, in the 70s and 80s,
researchers noticed that postvocalic/r/was in attrition in Glasgow (Macafee, 1983) and …

This paper explores the role of the L1 and the L2 in L3 oral production, both as regards
lexicon and syntax. Previous research has shown that both L1 and L2 are used in L3 oral …

The first language has been considered the main source of transfer for the acquisition of
further languages for a long time. However, studies by linguists such as Hufeisen …

In the last decades there has been a boom in the study of the acquisition of a third language
(L3). These studies often focus on how the L3 relates to the first language (L1) and the …

The paper is aimed at investigating the sources of cross-linguistic influence in the third
language (L3) phonology, and, particularly, the impact of the second language (L2) on the …

It has long been recognised that languages differ phonetically not only in their distinctive
segments and prosodic features, but also in the characteristic ways in which the phonetic …