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This volume presents the results of two tasks examining the
acquisition of plosive voicing contrasts in L2 English by college
students with Cypriot Greek (CG) backgrounds. The tasks focus on
the different factors affecting plosive identification and the
types of errors involving plosives. With respect to the first
issue, the phonetic perception of plosives turns out to be better
in voiceless consonants compared to their voiced counterparts, thus
providing evidence for the importance of the voicing contrast
factor. With respect to the second issue, the results point to the
same direction since it appears that L2 users performed
significantly better in voiceless plosives. It is also indicated
that they were able to perceive voiced plosives but they treated
such instances as a /nasal+voiced plosive/sequence (prenasalised
plosives). Therefore, the overall results seem to agree mostly with
the speech perception approach suggesting that voiced plosives are
realised differently in CG while the difficulties of the L2 CG
users with plosives seem to be attributed to VOT differences
between the L1 and the L2.
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