Thesiss

Minority languages existing in contact with a dominant second language have been shown to undergo a process of attrition or loss. Research in this area emphasizes the role of interference of the dominant language in the process of attrition or loss. Little is known about the sit…

Difficulties in speech production are often marked by disfluency; fillers, hesitations, prolongations, repetitions and repairs. In recent years a body of work has emerged that demonstrates that listeners are sensitive to disfluency, and that this affects their expectations for u…