Sonority and its role in the acquisition of complex coda clusters by Spanish speakers learning English as a second language

Abstract

Drozd, Olena, "Sonority and its role in the acquisition of complex coda clusters by Spanish speakers learning English as a second language" (2003 The choice of the segment couId not be a tbuted to possible Li interference since Spanish did not license complex codas and any final obstruents except /s/. The minimal sonority distance factor effected the rate of e ors. Subjects produced more errors in clusters where the sonority distance between their segments was small (e.g., one, two, and three).