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Second Language Acquisition of Suprasegmental Phonology Lesley Carmichael 1.0 Introduction New questions need to be asked in second language acquisition (SLA) research: Can second language learners have differential success in acquiring the segmental vs. suprasegmental phonology of a second language (L2)? That is, are segmental and suprasegmental phonology independent aspects of phonological acquisition? And if so, are they necessarily constrained according to the same age-based schedule of acquisition? In this paper, I draw from the SLA literature to demonstrate how work that has already