The influence of L1 on the acquisition of Swedish quantity by native speakers of Spanish, English and Estonian

By R. McAllister, James Emil Flege, Thorsten Piske. J. Phonetics, 2002

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Assessing constraints on second-language segmental production and perception (2003, background): “In support of this, McAllister, Flege, and Piske (2002) found that some native speakers of English and Spanish who were long-time residents of Stockholm learned to distinguish Swedish words differing in phonological quantity even though vowel duration is not used as the primary cue to vowel…”
CROSSLINGUISTIC INFLUENCE AND CONCEPTUAL TRANSFER: WHAT ARE THE CONCEPTS? (2005, background): “Two notable creolist studies with important implications for transfer in SLA are one of serial verbs by Migge (2002) and one of pronouns by Schwegler (2002).”
The Combined Effects of Immersion and Instruction on Second Language Pronunciation (2010, background): “It is rare that acquisition is complete or entirely successful, of course, in any of these areas (i.e., Flege, 1987; McAllister et al., 2002; Zampini & Green, 2001), and of great interest to researchers is which factors continue to hinder learner pronunciation.”