A synopsis of the article: This keynote article in Second Language Research presents arguments to support the idea that phonology is a computational and representational system that occupies a place in language faculty known as Universal Grammar (UG). These arguments oppose the view that phonology is merely an interface with the sensory-motor system and which the Minimalist program (Chomsky, 1995) describes as a late, spell-out process mapping morphosyntax to Phonological For

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A synopsis of the article: Phonetic training This meta-analysis seeks to answer these questions: What is the effect of L2 phonetic training? What factors moderate the effectiveness of L2 phonetic training? (education, proficiency, training approach, training stimuli, mode of delivery, phonetic subcompetence). The meta-analysis looked at studies that met the following criteria. The study had to: be an empirical phonetic training study; look at L2 segments, not suprasegmentals;

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