Like its predecessor, the revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) focuses on the learning of
L2 vowels and consonants (or “sounds,” for short) across the life-span. To define the context …

This book is intended to give you a broad overview of Applied Linguistics. It will introduce
you to important areas in the field, and familiarize you with the key issues in each of those …

This study examined the production of English consonants by native speakers of Italian. The
240 adult native Italian speakers of English who participated had begun learning English …

This study examined the production of English/b/and the perception of short-lag
English/bdg/tokens by four groups of bilinguals who differed according to their age of arrival …

This chapter reviews studies of the bilingual brain from a variety of disciplines, employing
multiple theoretical approaches and methodologies. For example, developmental …

Spoken word recognition is characterized by multiple activation of sound patterns that are
consistent with the acoustic-phonetic input. Recently, an extreme form of multiple activation …

Two experiments investigated whether listeners change their vowel categorization decisions
to adjust to different accents of British English. Listeners from different regions of England …

This study examined the recognition of English words by groups of native speakers of Italian
who differed in age of arrival in Canada and amount of continued native language use. The …

The use of spectral information at vowel onset, which constitutes a stronger cue to the
voicing contrast in English than in French, was investigated in French-English bilinguals in …

On the assumption that perception leads production in L2 Speech learning (Flege, 1995)
and perceptual accuracy enhancement eventually leads to changes in production, phonetic …