Despite abundant evidence of malleability in speech production, previous studies of the
effects of late second-language learning on first-language speech production have been …

Previous findings on adult second-language (L2) learners showed systematic phonetic
changes in their production of the native language (L1) starting in the first weeks of L2 …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

This study tested the hypothesis that heritage speakers of a minority language, due to their
childhood experience with two languages, would outperform late learners in producing …

Recent years have seen a proliferation of research on attrition in L1 speech (de Leeuw,
Mennen & Scobbie, in press; de Leeuw, Schmid & Mennen, 2010; Dmitrieva, Jongman & …

Linguistic studies focusing on monolinguals have often examined individuals with
considerable experience using another language. Results of a methodological review …

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 …

Automatic pronunciation error detection (APED) plays an important role in the domain of
language learning. As for the previous ASR-based APED methods, the decoded results …

In the literature on second language phonology, numerous studies have investigated the
influence of the speech sounds from the first language (L1) to the second language …

While previous work on multilingual speech rhythm has found evidence of progressive cross-
linguistic influence of a first or second language (L1, L2) on a third language (L3), regressive …