Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning

1. Dedication; 2. Alphabetical List of Contributors; 3. Acknowledgments; 4. Biographical Note (by Flege, James Emil); 5. PART I: The nature of L2 speech learning; 6. The study of second language speech learning: A brief overview (by Munro, Murray J.); 7. Nonnative and second-language speech perception: Commonalities and complementarities (by Best, Catherine T.); 8. Cross-language phonetic similarity of vowels: Theoretical and methodological issues (by Strange, Winifred); 9. Investigating the role of attention in phonetic learning (by Guion, Susan G.); 10. You are what you eat phonetically: The effect of linguistic experience on the perception of foreign vowels (by Frieda, Elaina M.); 11. PART II: The concept of foreign accent; 12. Nativelike pronunciation among late learners of French as a second language (by Birdsong, David); 13. Second language acquisition of a regional dialect of American English by native Japanese speakers (by Fox, Robert Allen); 14. Acoustic variability and perceptual learning: The case of non-native accented speech (by Jongman, Allard); 15. PART III: Consonants and vowels; 16. Strategies for Realization of L2-Categories: English /s/ - /z/ (by McAllister, Robert); 17. Temporal remnants from Mandarin in nonnative English speech (by Wang, Yue); 18. Cross-language consonant identification: English and Korean (by Schmidt, Anna Marie); 19. The relationship between identification and discrimination in cross-language perception: The case of Korean and Thai (by Wayland, Ratree P.); 20. PART IV: Beyond consonants and vowels; 21. Music and language learning: Effect of musical training on learning L2 speech contrasts (by Gottfried, Terry L.); 22. Behavioral and cortical effects of learning a second language: The acquisition of tone (by Sereno, Joan A.); 23. The perception of tones and phones (by Burnham, Denis); 24. Prosody in second language acquisition: Acoustic analyses of duration and F0 range (by Aoyama, Katsura); 25. PART V: Emerging issues; 26. Implications of James E. Flege's research for the foreign language classroom (by Piske, Thorsten); 27. Speech learning, lexical reorganization, and the development of word recognition by native and non-native English speakers (by Walley, Amanda C.); 28. Phonemic errors in different word positions and their effects on intelligibility of non-native speech: All's well that begins well (by Bent, Tessa); 29. The graphical basis of phones and phonemes (by Port, Robert F.); 30. References; 31. Author Index; 32. Subject Index