Perception and production of a new vowel category by adult second language learners

Chapters in this book

1. I-VIII I
2. Introduction 1
3. I Second-language speech: processes and strategies
4. English vowel production by Dutch talkers: more evidence for the “similar” vs “new” distinction 11
5. Perception and production of a new vowel category by adult second language learners 53
6. Interrelation of perceptual and productive learning in the initial acquisition of second-language tone 75
7. Effect of word familiarity on non-native phoneme perception: identification of English /r/, /l/ and /w/ by native speakers of Japanese 103
8. Perceptual foreign accent: L2 users’ comprehension ability 119
9. Native speaker reactions to non-native speech 133
10. II Second-language speech: conditions and constraints
11. L2 acquisition, L1 loss, and the critical period hypothesis 147
12. Conditions on transfer in phonology 161
13. On the non-acquisition of an English sound pattern 181
14. Interlanguage and postlexical transfer 187
15. On the acquisition of tonal and accentual features of English by Austrian learners 211
16. Austrian learners’ development of phonological representations for English 229
17. III Second-language speech: structure and system
18. Phonological processes vs morphonological rules in L1 and L2 acquisition 243
19. The device “phonological rule” and the acquisition of (inter)phonology 255
20. Minimal segments in second language phonology 263
21. A parameter-setting model for second-language phonological acquisition? 313
22. Towards a typology of bilingual phonological systems 325
23. List of contributors 343
24. Index 345