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Weight sensitivity and prominence in Laurentian French by Lamontagne, Jeffrey, Goad, Heather

“…Main prominence is conventionally described as being assigned to the final syllable of phrases in French, but previous quantitative and qualitative work has…”
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Using Event-Related Brain Potentials to Assess Perceptibility: The Case of French Speakers and English [h] by Mah, Jennifer, Goad, Heather, Steinhauer, Karsten

“…French speaking learners of English encounter persistent difficulty acquiring English [h], thus confusing words like and in both production and perception. We…”
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Ultimate attainment in interlanguage grammars: a prosodic approach by Goad, Heather, White, Lydia

“…In this article, we argue against the Representational Deficit Hypothesis, according to which second language (L2) speakers can never acquire functional…”
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Prosodic focus in English vs. French: A scope account by Vander Klok, Jozina, Goad, Heather, Wagner, Michael

“…We compare the use of prosodic prominence in English and French to convey focus. While previous studies have found these languages, and Germanic vs. Romance…”
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Prosodic structure and the representation of L2 functional morphology: A nativist approach by Goad, Heather, White, Lydia

“…In this paper, we argue against the emergentist position that functional morphology can be acquired by induction from properties of the target-language surface…”
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Prosodic Structure in Child French : evidence for the Foot by Goad, Heather, Buckley, Meaghen

“…There is disagreement in the literature on whether French has stress and on whether it has a foot projection. The disagreement stems from the observation that…”
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Weight effects and the parametrization of the foot: English versus Portuguese by Garcia, Guilherme D, Goad, Heather

“…This article explores the possibility that even though English and Portuguese present similar stress patterns on the surface, the two languages may be formally…”
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A longitudinal study of individual differences in the acquisition of new vowel contrasts by Kim, Donghyun, Clayards, Meghan, Goad, Heather

“…•Individual L2 learners differed in their cue weighting strategies over time.•Individual differences in cue weighting were linked to their developmental…”
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Weight sensitivity and prominence in Laurentian French by Lamontagne, Jeffrey, Goad, Heather

“…Main prominence is conventionaiiy described as being assigned to the finai syiiabie of phrases in French, but previous quantitative and qualitative work has…”
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L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral–nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese by Martinez, Ruth Maria, Goad, Heather, Dow, Michael

“…Feature-based approaches to acquisition principally focus on second language (L2) learners’ ability to perceive non-native consonants when the features…”
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Realization and representation of Nepali laryngeal contrasts: Voiced aspirates and laryngeal realism by Schwarz, Martha, Sonderegger, Morgan, Goad, Heather

“…•Laryngeal realism extends to language with 4-way laryngeal contrast with minimal issue.•Acoustics of Nepali voiced aspirates supports representation with…”
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Indirect positive evidence in the acquisition of a subset grammar by Schwartz, Misha, Goad, Heather

“…This article proposes that second language learners can use indirect positive evidence (IPE) to acquire a phonological grammar that is a subset of their L1…”
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Parsing Ambiguous Relative Clauses in L2 English: Learner Sensitivity to Prosodic Cues by Goad, Heather, Guzzo, Natália Brambatti, White, Lydia

“…We investigate effects of prosodic cues on interpretation of ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses (RCs) in English by Spanish-speaking learners…”
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Investigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions by Doucette, Amanda, O'Donnell, Timothy J, Sonderegger, Morgan, Goad, Heather

“…Certain phonotactic constraints on the co-occurrence of segments appear to be much more common across the world’s languages than others. In many languages,…”
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Plurals in SLI: Prosodic Deficit or Morphological Deficit? by Goad, Heather

“…Two accounts for the segmental and prosodic anomalies observed in plurals produced by 5 adults with specific language impairment (SLI), one prosodic and one…”
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Compensatory Strategies in the Developmental Patterns of English /s/: Gender and Vowel Context Effects by Bang, Hye-Young, Clayards, Meghan, Goad, Heather

“…Purpose: The developmental trajectory of English /s/ was investigated to determine the extent to which children's speech productions are acoustically…”
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A child-specific compensatory mechanism in the acquisition of English /s by Bang, Hye-Young, Clayards, Meghan, Goad, Heather

“…This study examines corpus data involving word-initial [sV] productions from 79 children aged 2–5 (Edwards & Beckman 2008) in comparison with a corpus of…”
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Prosodic structure and the representation of L2 functional morphology : A nativist approach: Special Issue: Current emergentist and nativist perspectives on second language acquisition, guest-edited by GOAD, Heather, WHITE, Lydia

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Ultimate attainment in interlanguage grammars: a prosodie approach by Goad, Heather, White, Lydia

“…In this article, we argue against the Representational Deficit Hypothesis, according to which second language (L2) speakers can never acquire functional…”
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What underlies inflectional error patterns in genetic dysphasia? by Gopnik, Myrna, Goad, Heather

“…We compare linguistic and non-linguistic explanations which attempt to account for the difficulties that individuals with genetic dysphasia experience with…”
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