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At the time of writing, my son Elliot is now five. For over a year, he has been very concerned about what he calls the “Canonivirus.” Because we think it is cute, nobody in my family draws his attention to the mismatch between his pronunciation and our own frequent references to the “Coronavirus,” which he clearly understands to be the same thing. This provides another example of how attempting to imitate speech, before being able to accurately perceive it, may result in mispronunciation that will require conscious attention to correct. At some point in the not-too-distant-future, Elliot’s cognitive speech learning mechanisms will surely help him close this gap and he will correct his mispronunciation. L2 learners can accomplish the same thing with the right type of perception-oriented training.