Linguistics 825
Second Language Phonetics and Phonology
Fall 2007

 

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Review Chapters (9/25)

Munro, M. J., & Bohn, O.-S. (2007).The study of second language speech learning: A brief overview. In O.-S. Bohn & M. J. Munro (Eds.), Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning (pp. 3-12). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Strange, W. (1995). Cross-language studies of speech perception: A historical review. In W. Strange (Ed.), Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience (pp. 3-45). Timonium, MD: York Press.

 

Critical Period Hypothesis (9/27)

Lenneberg, E. H. (1967). Biological Foundations of Language (Chapter 9). New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Flege, J. E., Munro, M., & MacKay, I. (1995). Factors affecting strength of perceived foreign accent in a second language. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97, 3125-3134.

Yamada, R. A. (1995). Age and acquisition of second language speech sounds: Perception of American English /r/ and /l/ by native speakers of Japanese. In W. Strange (Ed.), Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience (pp. 305-320). Timonium, MD: York Press.

 

Speech Learning Model (10/2)

Flege, J. E. (1987). The production of "new" and "similar" phones in a foreign language: Evidence for the effect of equivalence classification. Journal of Phonetics, 15, 47-65.

Flege, J. E. (1995). Second-language speech learning: Theory, findings, and problems. In W. Strange (Ed.), Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience (pp. 233-277). Timonium, MD: York Press.

 

Perceptual Assimilation Model (10/4 and 10/9)

Best, C. T., McRoberts, G. W., & Sithole, N. M. (1988). Examination of perceptual reorganization for nonnative speech contrasts: Zulu click discrimination by English-speaking adults and infants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 345-360.

Best, C. T. (1995). A direct realist view on cross-language speech perception. In W. Strange (Ed.), Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience (pp. 171-204). Timonium, MD: York Press.

Best, C. T., McRoberts, G., & Goodell, E. (2001). Discrimination of non-native consonant contrasts varying in perceptual assimilation to the listener's native phonological system. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 775-794.

Boomershine, A., Hall, K. C., Hume, E., & Johnson, K. (in press). The impact of allophony versus contrast on speech perception. In P. Avery, E. Dresher, & K. Rice (Eds.), Phonological Contrast. Berlin: Mouton.

 

Perceptual Magnet Effect (10/16)

Kuhl, P. K., & Iverson, P. (1995). Linguistic experience and the perceptual magnet effect. In W. Strange (Ed.), Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience (pp. 121-154). Timonium, MD: York Press.

Frieda, E. M., Walley, A. C., Flege, J. E., & Sloane, M. E. (1999). Adults' perception of native and non-native vowels: Implications for the perceptual magnet effect. Perception and Psychophysics, 61, 561-577.

 

Bidirectional Influences of L1 and L2 (10/18 and 10/23)

Sancier, M. L., & Fowler, C. A. (2001). Gestural drift in a bilingual speaker of Brazilian Portuguese and English. Journal of Phonetics, 25, 421-436.

Guion, S. G. (2003). The vowel systems of Quichua-Spanish bilinguals: An investigation into age of acquisition effects on the mutual influence of the first and second languages. Phonetica, 60, 98-128.

Caramazza, A., Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Zurif, E. B., & Carbone, E. (1973). The acquisition of a new phonological contrast: The case of stop consonants in French-English bilinguals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 54, 421-428.

Hall, K. C., & Boomershine, A. (2006). Life, the critical period: An exemplar-based model of language learning. Unpublished manuscript, Ohio State University.

 

L1 Effects on L2 (10/25 and 10/30)

Dupoux, E., Kakehi, K., Hirose, Y., Pallier, C., & Mehler, J. (1999). Epenthetic vowels in Japanese: A perceptual illusion? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1568-1578.

Peperkamp, S. (2005). A psycholinguistic theory of loanword adaptations. In M. Ettlinger, N. Fleischer, & M. Park-Doob (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (pp. 341-352). Berkeley, CA: The Society.

Strange, W., Akahane-Yamada, R., Kubo, R., Trent, S. A., Nishi, K., & Jenkins, J. J. (1998). Perceptual assimilation of American English vowels by Japanese listeners. Journal of Phonetics, 26, 311-344.

Strange, W., Akahane-Yamada, R., Kubo, R., Trent, S. A., & Nishi, K. (2001). Effects of consonantal context on perceptual assimilation of American English vowels by Japanese listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 1691-1704.

 

Perception and Production Interface (11/1)

Sheldon, A., & Strange, W. (1982). The acquisition of /r/ and /l/ by Japanese learners of English: Evidence that speech production can precede speech perception. Applied Psycholinguistics, 3, 243-261.

Bradlow, A. R., Pisoni, D. B., Yamada, R. A., & Tohkura, Y. (1997). Training Japanese listeners to identify English /r/ and /l/ IV: Some effects of perceptual learning on speech production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101, 2299-2310.

 

Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit (11/6)

Bent, T., & Bradlow, A. R. (2003). The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, 1600-1610.

Stibbard, R. M., & Lee, J.-I. (2006). Evidence against the mismatched interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit hypothesis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, 433-442.

 

Formal Phonological Approaches (11/8 and 11/13)

LaCharite, D., & Paradis, C. (2005). Category preservation and proximity versus phonetic approximation in loanword adaptation. Linguistic Inquiry, 36, 223-258.

Kenstowicz, M. (2005). The phonetics and phonology of Korean loanword adaptation. Paper presented at the First European Conference on Korean Linguistics, Leiden, Netherlands.

Yip, M. (2006). The symbiosis between perception and grammar in loanword phonology. Lingua, 116, 950-975.

 

Term Project Presentations

Thursday 11/15: Jeff, Dahee, Mahmoud

Tuesday 11/20: Liz, Chia-Hsin, Jeonghwa

Tuesday 11/27: Yi-Jen, Chris, Chunsheng

Thursday 11/29: Meghan, Kim, Yolanda