Second-language speech : structure and process / Allan James and Jonathan Leather, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

James, Allan (Allan R.)

Leather, Jonathan.

Series:

Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]

Studies on language acquisition ; 13

Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 1861-4248 ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

English vowel production by Dutch talkers: more evidence for the ""similar"" vs ""new"" distinction / James Emil Flege -- Perception and production of a new vowel category by adult second language learners / Ocke Schwen Bohn and 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, Yoh'ichi Tohkura and Noriko Kobayashi -- Perceptual foreign accent: L2 u

Contents:

Front matter

Introduction / Leather, Jonathan / James, Allan

I Second-language speech: processes and strategies

English vowel production by Dutch talkers: more evidence for the "similar" vs "new" distinction / Flege, James Emil

Perception and production of a new vowel category by adult second language learners / Bohn, Ocke Schwen / Flege, James Emil

Interrelation of perceptual and productive learning in the initial acquisition of second-language tone / Leather, Jonathan

Effect of word familiarity on non-native phoneme perception: identification of English /r/, /l/ and /w/ by native speakers of Japanese / Yamada, Reiko / Tohkura, Yoh'ichi / Kobayashi, Noriko

Perceptual foreign accent: L2 users' comprehension ability / McAllister, Robert

Native speaker reactions to non-native speech / Cunningham-Andersson, Una

II Second-language speech: conditions and constraints

L2 acquisition, L1 loss, and the critical period hypothesis / Major, Roy C.

Conditions on transfer in phonology / Hammarberg, Björn

On the non-acquisition of an English sound pattern / Nathan, Geoffrey S.

Interlanguage and postlexical transfer / Young-Scholten, Martha

On the acquisition of tonal and accentual features of English by Austrian learners / Grosser, Wolfgang

Austrian learners' development of phonological representations for English / Wieden, Wilfried

III Second-language speech: structure and system

Phonological processes vs morphonological rules in L1 and L2 acquisition / Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna

The device "phonological rule" and the acquisition of (inter)phonology / Singh, Rajendra

Minimal segments in second language phonology / Weinberger, Steven Η.

A parameter-setting model for second-language phonological acquisition? / James, Allan

Towards a typology of bilingual phonological systems / Laeufer, Christiane

List of contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110882933

3110882930

OCLC:

843205695