In the selection of a suitable literary text familiarity to students, proper language, length and topic appropriacy to their age played the most important roles. Thus, Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1997) was chosen in all four languages. An extract equal to a single paragraph in the original text was randomly chosen in which the expected proportion of pre-voiced, short lag and long lag stop pairs (/p/-/b/, /k/-/g/, /t/-/d/) was not too low, i.e. the number of the highlighted positions was 23 in German as L2, 20 in English as L3 and 39 in French as L3. On the average, participants took less than a minute to read out each extract.