Much research on the acquisition of phonological skills in a second/foreign language has
hitherto been concerned with the phonemes of the target language, thereby disregarding …

In this account of metrical stress theory, Bruce Hayes builds on the notion that stress
constitutes linguistic rhythm—that stress patterns are rhythmically organized, and that formal …

Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

This chapter will consider what is involved when an individual speaks, using a language
other than the native language. Speaking is a process of oral language production. It is one …

This article addresses the debate about whether adult language learners have access to the
principles and parameters of universal grammar in constructing the grammar of a foreign or …

A survey and analysis of second language theory discusses the development of ideas in this
expanding area of language studies. It looks at the implications of these ideas and directions …

Adult Spanish second language (L2) learners of English and native speakers of English
participated in an English perception task designed to investigate their ability to use L2 …

In this paper, I address the nature of the mental representation of an interlanguage grammar.
The focus will be on the necessity of positing some sort of hierarchical constituent structure …

This study investigates prosody and fluency of Finland Swedish as a second language (L2).
The main objective is to investigate global measures of prosody and fluency as predictors of …

Disenchantment with the strong form of the contrastive analysis hypothesis stemmed in part
from the fact that simple comparison of the surface patterns of the native and target …