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 article surveys research in Spanish phonology from the perspective of Optimality
Theory, a formal linguistic framework based on ranked and violable constraints. Theoretical …

The first of two studies in this paper (both using electromagnetic articulography) focused on
onset clusters in German and French. Less overlap of C1 and C2 was found in plosive-nasal …

While both French and Spanish have complex onsets, the languages differ in the variety and
distribution of clusters allowed as well as in the realization of voiced stops. The present …

This article investigates the role that the phonetic parameters of duration and voicing play in
shaping asymmetric patterns of Romance stop-liquid cluster realization. Based on acoustic …

In the canonical analysis of the acoustic and perceptual structure of phonetic systems,
experiments and modeling procedures are based on a balanced inventory of phones whose …

This corpus study investigated pronunciation variants of word-final obstruent-liquid-schwa
(OLS) clusters in nouns in casual Parisian French. Results showed that at least one …

The phonotactic system of Afrikaans underwent multiple changes in its diachronic
development. While some consonant clusters got lost, others still surface in contemporary …

Abstract Quilis's (1970, 1993) instrumental work on the acoustic analysis of intrusive vowels
(henceforth, IVs) in Spanish has greatly enhanced our understanding of these short, vowel …

Novel liquid consonants are notoriously problematic for L2 learners. However, for an
extended period of time, the acquisition of L2 liquids has been only explored within a limited …