Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning

In honor of James Emil Flege

Editors

Ocke-Schwen Bohn | Aarhus University

Murray J. Munro | Simon Fraser University

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This stimulating collection of articles from leading international researchers provides a state-of-the-art overview of core issues in second language speech perception and production. Aimed at phoneticians, speech scientists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, and pedagogical specialists, it presents engaging discussions of fundamental problems and controversies within the field, as well as new empirical findings arising from a variety of methodological approaches. Its twenty chapters, inspired by the ground-breaking work of James E. Flege, address such topics as the theoretical underpinnings of second language speech learning; the nature and etiology of foreign accents; the effects of age, experience, and training; speech intelligibility; and the acquisition of vowels, consonants, tone, and prosody. This volume will serve as a valuable resource, not only for researchers, but for anyone wishing to gain an understanding of an area of linguistics that is rapidly growing in importance.

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 17] 2007. xvii, 406 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.17

Table of Contents

Dedication | p. ix

Alphabetical List of Contributors | pp. xi–xiii

Acknowledgments | p. xv

Biographical Note

James Emil Flege | p. xvii

PART I: The nature of L2 speech learning

The study of second language speech learning: A brief overview

Murray J. Munro and Ocke-Schwen Bohn | pp. 3–11

Nonnative and second-language speech perception: Commonalities and complementarities

Catherine T. Best and Michael D. Tyler | pp. 13–34

Cross-language phonetic similarity of vowels: Theoretical and methodological issues

Winifred Strange | pp. 35–55

Investigating the role of attention in phonetic learning

Susan G. Guion and Eric Pederson | pp. 57–77

You are what you eat phonetically: The effect of linguistic experience on the perception of foreign vowels

Elaina M. Frieda and Takeshi Nozawa | pp. 79–96

PART II: The concept of foreign accent

Nativelike pronunciation among late learners of French as a second language

David Birdsong | pp. 99–116

Second language acquisition of a regional dialect of American English by native Japanese speakers

Robert Allen Fox and Julie Tevis McGory | pp. 117–134

Acoustic variability and perceptual learning: The case of non-native accented speech

Allard Jongman and Travis Wade | pp. 135–150

PART III: Consonants and vowels

Strategies for Realization of L2-Categories: English /s/ — /z/

Robert McAllister | pp. 153–166

Temporal remnants from Mandarin in nonnative English speech

Yue Wang and Dawn Behne | pp. 167–184

Cross-language consonant identification: English and Korean

Anna Marie Schmidt | pp. 185–200

The relationship between identification and discrimination in cross-language perception: The case of Korean and Thai

Ratree Wayland | pp. 201–218

PART IV: Beyond consonants and vowels

Music and language learning: Effect of musical training on learning L2 speech contrasts

Terry L. Gottfried | pp. 221–237

Behavioral and cortical effects of learning a second language: The acquisition of tone

Joan A. Sereno and Yue Wang | pp. 239–258

The perception of tones and phones

Denis Burnham and Karen Mattock | pp. 259–280

Prosody in second language acquisition: Acoustic analyses of duration and F0 range

Katsura Aoyama and Susan G. Guion | pp. 281–297

PART V: Emerging issues

Implications of James E. Flege’s research for the foreign language classroom

Thorsten Piske | pp. 301–314

Speech learning, lexical reorganization, and the development of word recognition by native and non-native English speakers

Amanda C. Walley | pp. 315–330

Phonemic errors in different word positions and their effects on intelligibility of non-native speech: All’s well that begins well

Tessa Bent, Ann R. Bradlow and Bruce L. Smith | pp. 331–347

The graphical basis of phones and phonemes

Robert F. Port | pp. 349–365

Author Index | pp. 399–403

Subject Index | pp. 405–406

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Language acquisition

Language teaching

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