Second-Language Speech

Structure and Process

Allan James, Jonathan Leather, Allan James, Jonathan Leather

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783110141269
• eBook ISBN: 9783110882933
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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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