Second-Language Speech: Structure and Process

✍ Scribed by Allan James (editor); Jonathan Leather (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]; 13
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
I Second-language speech: processes and strategies
English vowel production by Dutch talkers: more evidence for the “similar” vs “new” distinction
Perception and production of a new vowel category by adult second language learners
Interrelation of perceptual and productive learning in the initial acquisition of second-language tone
Effect of word familiarity on non-native phoneme perception: identification of English /r/, /l/ and /w/ by native speakers of Japanese
Perceptual foreign accent: L2 users’ comprehension ability
Native speaker reactions to non-native speech
II Second-language speech: conditions and constraints
L2 acquisition, L1 loss, and the critical period hypothesis
Conditions on transfer in phonology
On the non-acquisition of an English sound pattern
Interlanguage and postlexical transfer
On the acquisition of tonal and accentual features of English by Austrian learners
Austrian learners’ development of phonological representations for English
III Second-language speech: structure and system
Phonological processes vs morphonological rules in L1 and L2 acquisition
The device “phonological rule” and the acquisition of (inter)phonology
Minimal segments in second language phonology
A parameter-setting model for second-language phonological acquisition?
Towards a typology of bilingual phonological systems
List of contributors
Index