Much research on the acquisition of phonological skills in a second/foreign language has
hitherto been concerned with the phonemes of the target language, thereby disregarding …

A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching,
and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional'add-it …

This study investigated the relationship between experienced SPEAK Test raters' judgments
of nonnative pronunciation and actual deviance in segmentals, prosody, and syllable …

This study examined the influence of the L1 phonetic system on the acquisition of Swedish
quantity distinctions. The aim was to test the hypothesis that difficulty in acquiring an L2 …

Based on an innovative corpus-based approach, this book offers a comprehensive survey of
the phonological and phonetic properties of L2 speech in English and German. The first part …

Assessment of L2 Proficiency in Second Page 1 Language Learning 44:2, June 1994, pp.
307–336 Review Article Assessment of L2 Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition …

Untrained native English listeners assigned foreign accent scores to sentence and narrative
utterances that had been rendered unintelligible through low-pass filtering. Utterances …

Purpose This study investigated how listeners' native language affects their weighting of
acoustic cues (such as vowel quality, pitch, duration, and intensity) in the perception of …

Title description This stimulating collection of articles from leading international researchers
provides a state-of-the-art overview of core issues in second language speech perception …

Native speakers of Mandarin Chinese have difficulty producing native-like English stress
contrasts. Acoustically, English lexical stress is multidimensional, involving manipulation of …