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Fri Jul 2 1999

Sum: Speech science and L2 responses

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  • Cor9999, Speech science and L2 responses

    Message 1: Speech science and L2 responses

     Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:24:49 EDT
    From: Cor9999 <Cor9999aol.com>
    Subject: Speech science and L2 responses


    I wish to thank every one for their suggestions, and I always welcome more! The following are excerpts from several messages I've received in response to my query on speech science and L2 pronunciation.

    Geoff Nathan: take a look at Nathan, Geoffrey S. 1987 On the acquisition of aspiration. Interlanguage Phonology, ed. by Georgette Ioup. Newbury Press, pp. 204-212.

    _______ 1997 On the non-acquisition of an English sound pattern. in Second Language Speech: Structure and Process, edited by Allan James and Jonathan Leather, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 181-186. and the references cited therein.

    Annie L. Clark: I recommend looking up the many papers written by James Flege on foreign accent and L2 learning.

    As well, there are some very old papers by Lisker and Abramson, and one by Caramazza et al, and a newer one by Francois Grosjean.

    Holly Nibert: *Flege, J. E., M. J. Munro, & I. R. A. MacKay. 1995. "Factors affecting strength of perceived foreign accent in a second language." Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 97 (5):3125-3134.

    This second article is good as a lit. review. In it, you'll find a fairly comprehensive list of his work and that of others.

    *Flege, J. E. 1995. "Second Language Speech Learning: Theory, Findings, and Problems." In Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience: Issues in Cross-Language Speech Research, ed. Winifred Strange, pp. 233-277. Timonium, MD: York Press.

    Alice Faber: your best starting point would be to do a Lit Search (PsychInfo or PsychLit) for papers by James Flege. ... There's also a large literature on training Japanese speakers to do better with English R and L. Names to look for are David Pisoni (with a variety of co-authors), Winifred Strange & Catherine Best.