Fred Eckman is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests over the last ten years or so have been the investigation of the acquisition of target-language phonemic contrasts by adult language learners. He was the Principal Investigator on a grant from the National Institutes of Health titled “Markedness and Learnability” from August 2006 through July 2013 for $1.39 million.

Selected publications over the last ten years include the following.

Eckman, F. 2017. Theoretical L2 Phonology. In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Pronunciation, (ed.) by O. Kang, R. Thompson, & J. Murphy. Pp 25 – 38. London: Routledge.

Eckman, F. & Iverson, G. 2015. Second Language Acquisition and Phonological Change. In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology,(ed.) by P. Honeybone & J. Salmons. Pp. 637 – 643. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Link to abstract]

Eckman, F., Iverson, G. & Song, J. Y.  2015. Overt and covert contrast in L2 phonology. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 1, 254 – 277. [Link to abstract]

Eckman, F., Iverson, G. & Song, J. Y.  2014. Covert contrast in the acquisition of second language phonology. In Perspectives on Phonological theory and Acquisition: Papers in Honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen, (ed.) by A. Farris-Trimble & J. Barlow. Pp. 25 – 48. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishers. [Link to abstract]

Eckman, F., Iverson, G. & Song, J. Y. 2013.  The role of hypercorrection in the acquisition of L2 phonemic contrasts. Second Language Research, 29,257 – 283. [Link to abstract]

Eckman, F. & Iverson, G.  2013.  The role of the native language in the acquisition of L2 phonemic contrasts.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition 35. 67 – 92. [Link to abstract]

Eckman, F.  2012. Generative L2 phonology.  In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, (ed.) by C. A. Chapelle. Wiley-Blackwell. [Link to abstract]

Eckman, F.  2012. The Markedness Differential Hypothesis (MDH).  In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition, (ed.) by P. Robinson, 409 – 411. New York: Taylor Francis/Routledge.

Eckman, F.  2012. Second language phonology.  In The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, (ed.) by S. Gass & A. Mackey, 91 – 105.  London & New York: Taylor Francis/Routledge.