Predicting phonotactic difficulty in second language acquisition
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2010
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Editora Insular
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The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that universal phonotactic preferences guide the
acquisition of consonant clusters in a second language. The empirical evidence comes from
young learners of English (L2 English) with mother
tongues (L1s) from the following
families: independent (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese
), Sino-Tibetan (Chinese), Austronesian
(Kosraean, Marshallese, Palauan, Ponapean, Samoan,
Tagalog, Trukese, Visayan), Dravidian
(Tamil) and Slavic (Polish).
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Rauber, A.S., M.A. Watkins, R. Silveira and R.D. Koerich (eds.). The acquisition of second language speech: Studies in honor of Professor Barbara O. Baptista. Florianópolis: Editora Insular, 2010