Alfonso Morales

• Georgetown University

Previous literature has investigated how different languages distinguish voiced and voiceless stop consonants (i.e. /p, t, k, b, d, g/) in production (e.g., Beckman et al., 2013; Keating, 1984). The production of voicing contrast in stops has also been broadly investigated in second and third language studies (e.g., Zampini, 1998; Llama, 2010), but...

In our increasingly multilingual modern world, understanding how languages beyond the first are acquired and processed at a brain level is essential to design evidence-based teaching, clinical interventions and language policy. Written by a team of world-leading experts in a wide range of disciplines within cognitive science, this Handbook provides...

Study abroad research has become an established area of inquiry with theoretical impact and methodological sophistication. The field has incorporated the different approaches and methodological changes that have characterized SLA scholarship, including technological advances and new designs. The present volume contributes an update on and a systema...

With the aim of uncovering the dynamics of cross-linguistic influence (CLI), the present study investigates the production of word-initial stops by L1 Mandarin-L2 English bilinguals learning L3 Spanish over the course of a semester. For this purpose, six Spanish majors at a university in Beijing, China (two 2 nd semester, two 4 th semester and two...

Saussure proposed the division language/parole and argued that language can be studied as a formal system. Fifty years later Chomsky declared competence the core interest of linguistics. Although for years Generative second language acquisition (GenSLA) has adopted this view, a number of recent publications poke holes into the competence bubble. We...

The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics - edited by Kimberly L. Geeslin August 2018

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Despite intuitive and theoretically motivated claims that Study Abroad (SA) is an optimal environment for language development, including pronunciation gains, research on its effectiveness has produced contradictory results. Furthermore, there is little known about short-term study abroad programs, where matriculation numbers are increasing faster...