TY - BOOK AU - Altmann,Heidi AU - Ayoola,Kehinde A. AU - Deterding,David AU - Fuchs,Robert AU - Gabriel,Christoph AU - Gut,Ulrike AU - Kabak,Barış AU - Kopečková,Romana AU - Nagarajan,Hemalatha AU - Pillai,Stefanie AU - Soneye,Taiwo Olayemi AU - Stahnke,Johanna AU - Thulke,Jeanette AU - Wrembel,Magdalena AU - Wunder,Eva-Maria AU - Zerbian,Sabine TI - Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology T2 - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , SN - 9783110345926 AV - PE1133 .U85 2015 U1 - 421/.5 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - English language KW - Phonology KW - English KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - English Phonology KW - English as a Second Language, Postcolonial Varieties of English N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; 1. Introduction --; 2. The phonology of Brunei English: L2 English or emergent variety --; 3. Rothicity in Malaysian English: The emergence of a new norm? --; 4. Cross-linguistic influence in second vs. third language acquisition of phonology --; 5. Differences in the perception of English vowel sounds by child L2 and L3 learners --; 6. Loanword adaptation and second language acquisition: Convergence and divergence --; 7. Onset consonant cluster realisation in Nigerian English: The emergence of an endogenous variety? --; 8. Acquiring English and French speech rhythm in a multilingual classroom: A comparison with Asian Englishes --; 9. A sonority-based account of speech rhythm in Chinese learners of English --; 10. English word stress in L2 and postcolonial varieties: systematicity and variation --; 11. Prosodic marking of focus in transitive sentences in varieties of South African English --; 12. Epilogue: Universal or diverse paths to English phonology? --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The book is concerned with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and suprasegmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a postcolonial (“new”) variety of English. It focuses on the acquisition process and factors influencing it, based on insights from all three disciplines UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346084 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110346084 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110346084/original ER -