The book is concerned with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and suprasegmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a postcolonial (new) variety of English. It focuses on the acquisition process and factors influencing it, based on insights from all three disciplines.

Ulrike Gut and Robert Fuchs, University of Munster, Germany; Eva-Maria Wunder, University of Augsburg, Germany.