John Archibald

List of John Benjamins publications in which John Archibald is involved.

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Second Language Phonology

John Archibald

This volume explores a variety of aspects of second language speech, with special focus on contributions to the field made by (primarely) generative linguists looking at the sounds and sound systems of second language learners. Second Language Phonology starts off with an overview of second… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 17] 1998. xii, 313 pp.

Nelson, Brett C., Antonio A. González Poot, John Archibald and Darin Flynn 2026 Redeploying dimensions and learning gestures in the acquisition of new sounds: Glottalized consonants in Mayan languages New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference, Ionin, Tania and Silvina Montrul (eds.), pp. 331–357 | Chapter

This chapter explores the L2/L3 acquisition of Mayan ejectives from multiple languages. Proceeding from the dimensional framework of Avery and Idsardi (2001), we lay out a unified analysis of the phonological acquisition of Yucatec Maya by Spanish speakers, Kaqchikel by Spanish-English speakers,… read more

Archibald, John 2024 Chapter 11. “And yet it moves”: Finding a place for phonology in the GenSLA cosmos Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, Velnić, Marta, Anne Dahl and Kjersti Faldet Listhaug (eds.), pp. 264–289 | Chapter

The study of Lx phonology is under-represented in the GenSLA literature. I argue that this is largely because the complex learnability issues in the phonological domain have been under-appreciated. Drawing on examples from features and syllables, I illustrate that the acquisition of phonology is… read more

Archibald, John 2024 Chapter 13. Phonological features and phonetic variation in multilingual grammars: Restructuring an L3 contrastive hierarchy Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity, Babatsouli, Elena (ed.), pp. 348–379 | Chapter

Drawing on Archibald (2022a, b), the chapter shows how a contrastive hierarchy model of segmental phonology can provide formal model of determining cross-linguistic similarity. Looking primarily at Arabic-French learners of English, the L1 and L2 features (including the markedness value of the… read more

Kim, Keun and John Archibald 2024 The efficacy of lexical stress diacritics on the English comprehensibility and accentedness of Korean speakers Pedagogical Linguistics 5:1, pp. 76–101 | Article

The purpose of the study was to examine the efficacy of lexical stress diacritics on the English comprehensibility and accentedness of Korean speakers. To this end, 30 native Korean participants read aloud 15 English sentences without diacritics in the pretest. Then, they were given explicit… read more

Archibald, John 2023 Phonological parsing via an integrated I-language: The emergence of property-by-property transfer effects in L3 phonology Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:6, pp. 743–766 | Article

Schwartz and Sprouse (2021) argue against property-by-property Transfer (Westergaard, 2021a, b) and for wholesale transfer (Rothman, 2015) into a third language grammar by questioning the cognitive plausibility of “extracting a proper subpart from the … grammar and using that proper sub-system… read more

Archibald, John 2023 Using a contrastive hierarchy to formalize structural similarity as I-proximity in L3 phonology Structural similarity across domains in third language acquisition, Kolb, Nadine, Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard (eds.), pp. 614–637 | Article

In this paper I argue that cross-linguistic similarity in third language acquisition is determined by a structural hierarchy of contrastive phonological features. Such an approach allows us formalize a predictive notion of I-proximity which also provides an explanatory model of L2, and L3… read more

Archibald, John 2022 Feature dependency and the poverty of the stimulus in the acquisition of L2 German plural allomorphy Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond, Leal, Tania, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli (eds.), pp. 117–136 | Chapter

In this study, I investigated the acquisition of L2 German plural allomorphy via a written production task of classroom learners in North America. Trommer (2015) has argued that the mutual exclusivity of marking plural by either an [n] suffix or an umlauted (i.e. [CORONAL]) stem vowel derives from… read more

Archibald, John 2019 Types of evidence and the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”, pp. 809–815 | Commentary

Archibald, John 1993 Metrical Phonology and the Acquisition of L2 Stress Confluence: Linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology, Eckman, Fred (ed.), pp. 37–48 | Article

Archibald, John 1989 A lexical model of color space Linguistic Categorization: Proceedings of an International Symposium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 10–11, 1987, Corrigan, Roberta, Fred Eckman and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 31–53 | Article