Second-Language Speech

Abstract

Part 1 Second-language speech - processes and strategies: English vowel production by Dutch talkers - more evidence for the 'similar' versus 'new' distinction, James Emil Flege Perception and production of a new vowel category by adult second-language learners, Ocke Schwen Bohn, James Emil Flege Interrelation of perceptual and productive learning in the initial acquisition of second-language tone, Jonathan Leather Effect of word familiarity on non-native phoneme perception - identification of English /r/, /l/, and /w/ by native speakers of Japanese, Reiko Yamada et al Perceptual foreign accent - L2 users' comprehension ability, Robert McAllister Native speaker reactions to non-native speech, Una Cunningham-Anderson. Part 2 Second-language speech - conditions and constraints: L2 acquisition, L1 loss, and the critical period hypothesis, Roy C. Major Conditions on transfer in phonology, Bjorn Hammarberg On the non-acquisition of an English sound pattern, Geoffrey S. Nathan Interlanguage and postlexical transfer, Martha Young Scholten On the acquisition of tonal and accentual features of English by austrian learners, Wolfgang Grosser austrian learners' development of phonological representations for English, Wilfried Wieden. Part 3 Second-language speech - structure and system: Phonological processes versus morphological rules in L1 and L2 acquisition, Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk The device 'phonological rule' and the acquisition of (inter)phonology, Rajendra Singh Minimal segments in second language phonology, Steven H. Weinberger a parameter-setting model for second-language phonological acquisition?, Allan James Towards a typology of bilingual phonological systems, Christiane Laeufer.