The L2 acquisition of syllable structure and stress in Spanish

This thesis is a contribution to the field of second language (L2) acquisition of prosodic structure. The acquisition of prosodic structure has received considerably less attention than the acquisition at the segmental level and the research carried out in this area has largely focused on whether L2 learners can reset parameters in the foreign language. Most of the work done with parameter resetting in Lingusitics has largely looked at situations in which the L2 is in a subset-superset relation with respect to the native language of the learners.