Table of contents
Dedicationix
Alphabetical List of Contributors
Acknowledgmentsxv
PART I: The nature of L2 speech learning1
The study of second language speech learning: A brief overview
Nonnative and second-language speech perception: Commonalities and complementarities
Cross-language phonetic similarity of vowels: Theoretical and methodological issues
Investigating the role of attention in phonetic learning
You are what you eat phonetically: The effect of linguistic experience on the perception of foreign vowels
PART II: The concept of foreign accent97
Nativelike pronunciation among late learners of French as a second language
Second language acquisition of a regional dialect of American English by native Japanese speakers
Acoustic variability and perceptual learning: The case of non-native accented speech
PART III: Consonants and vowels151
Strategies for Realization of L2-Categories: English /s/ — /z/
Temporal remnants from Mandarin in nonnative English speech
Cross-language consonant identification: English and Korean
The relationship between identification and discrimination in cross-language perception: The case of Korean and Thai
PART IV: Beyond consonants and vowels219
Music and language learning: Effect of musical training on learning L2 speech contrasts
Behavioral and cortical effects of learning a second language: The acquisition of tone
The perception of tones and phones
Prosody in second language acquisition: Acoustic analyses of duration and F0 range
PART V: Emerging issues299
Implications of James E. Flege’s research for the foreign language classroom
Speech learning, lexical reorganization, and the development of word recognition by native and non-native English speakers
Phonemic errors in different word positions and their effects on intelligibility of non-native speech: All’s well that begins well
The graphical basis of phones and phonemes
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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