The Department of English is pleased to announce the publication of a paper entitled Second-Language Acquisition and First-Language Attrition of Speech: The Production of Arabic and English Short Vowels by Dr. Amirah Alharbi, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Department, which was written in collaboration with Dr. Lisa Kornder, Postdoctoral researcher at University of Graz (as corresponding author) and Dr. Anouschka Foltz, Associate Professor in English Linguistics at the Institute of English Studies at University of Graz. The paper was published in Language and Speech on August 10, 2025.