2025/07/01 by Ellen Broselow · 1 voice · 1 citation
Computer Science · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Phonetics and Phonology Research
paper · doi:10.1177/02676583241311787
openalex publication_date 2025/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
When examined more closely, some of the second language patterns discussed in Professor John Archibald’s article ‘Waiting in the wings: The place of phonology in the study of multilingual grammars’ rely on subphonemic acoustic cues rather than abstract structure, and therefore provide only precarious scaffolding for the claim that second language (L2) behavior must be understood in terms of phonology as traditionally conceived. I argue that these patterns do nonetheless provide an invaluable probe into ‘how the sounds are connected to meaning in a mental grammar’ once we expand the nature and scope of the phonological grammar to include mapping from the acoustic signal to phonological representations.