ABSTRACT
This contribution presents data on cross-linguistic phonetic influence (phonetic CLI) in the speech of Polish learners of English, both in L2 acquisition (foreign accent) and L1 drift situations. The main aim of our studies is to investigate whether in word-initial position, voiced and voiceless categories behave symmetrically with regard to phonetic CLI. In both studies we find that the answer is no. Voiced plosives /bdg/ are more susceptible than voiceless /ptk/ to phonetic CLI. These findings are interpreted with respect to a phonological proposal put forward by Schwartz (2017).
