Much of what is known about the outcome of second language acquisition and bilingualism
can be summarized in terms of inter-individual variability, plasticity and age. The present …

Human infants become native‐language listeners through a process of perceptual
narrowing. Monolingual infants are initially sensitive to a wide range of language‐relevant …

Heritage speakers are people raised in a home where one language is spoken who
subsequently switch to another dominant language. The version of the home language that …

The new edition of the leading textbook for English applied phonetics and phonology A
leading textbook for English Phonetics and Phonology, the fourth edition of Applied English …

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 …

The present study investigates voice onset times (VOTs) to determine if cognates enhance
the cross-language phonetic influences in the speech production of a range of Spanish …

The development of native language phonetic representations in bilingual infants was
compared to that of monolingual infants. Infants (ages 6–8, 10–12, and 14–20 months) from …

We examined the voice onset times (VOTs) of monolingual and bilingual speakers of
English and French to address the question whether cross language phonetic influences …

Speech production research has demonstrated that the first language (L1) often interferes
with production in bilinguals' second language (L2), but it has been suggested that …

This article aims at revitalizing the debate concerning the measurement of language
proficiency (LP) in the study of bilingualism (Grosjean, 1998). A review is presented of the …