Phonological opacity refers to rules/ processes that should apply in a given context but don‟t or apply even without a visible context. As such processes of underapplication and overapplication are found in the intermediate ...

In this thesis English interdental fricative acquisition by Brazilians second language learners has been investigated. Data from oral productions of three students groups has been gathered. The first group is composed by ...

In this study, we investigated the repair strategies applied to English word primary stress in the process of acquisition by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP). For this purpose, we used Connectionist Optimality ...