Second Language Speech Learning

Theoretical and Empirical Progress

Ratree Wayland

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781108840637
• eBook ISBN: 9781108889230
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I Theoretical Progress
• Part II Segmental Acquisition
• Part III Acquiring Suprasegmental Features
• Part IV Accentedness and Acoustic Features
• Part V Cognitive and Psychological Variables
• Index