Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-74656f9884-8r8nv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-09T06:12:21.700Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
Coming soon

Redeployment in Multilingual Phonology

Expected online publication date:  09 November 2026

John Archibald
Affiliation:
University of Victoria
Darin Flynn
Affiliation:
University of Calgary

Summary

In this book we explore the construct of phonological redeployment which can be described as taking a contrastive element from your L1 grammar and using it in a new way to represent a novel contrast in an additional language. We look at learning a new liquid contrast, a new place contrast, a new vowel contrast, and show how redeployment accounts for the observed patterns. We look at learning new laryngeal features such as voicing, aspiration, and ejection. We also touch upon the field of language contact, showing how features can be redeployed within a language to set up new contrasts resulting from contact. We also review cases where learners take an L1 feature from one domain (a vocalic feature) and redeploy it to acquire a new L2 consonantal place contrast. We conclude by situating the studies within the literature on monolingual normativity to emphasize that different does not mean deficient.

Information

Save element to Kindle

To save this element to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Redeployment in Multilingual Phonology
Available formats No formats are currently available for this content.
×

Save element to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Redeployment in Multilingual Phonology
Available formats No formats are currently available for this content.
×

Save element to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Redeployment in Multilingual Phonology
Available formats No formats are currently available for this content.
×