L2 Phonology Reading Group Autumn Term 2010-11
Meeting: Wednesday afternoons roughly every other
week (see below for
times/rooms)
Any queries please contact Sam Hellmuth. Sessions
last 1½ hours approx. All welcome.
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Date |
Start time/room |
Reading |
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wk 2 Oct 20th |
4.30pm V/C/026 |
Flege, J. (1995). Second-language Speech Learning:
Theory, Findings, and Problems. In W. Strange (Ed) Speech Perception and
Linguistic Experience: Issues in Cross-language research. Timonium, MD: York
Press, Pp. 229-273. http://jimflege.com/files/Flege_in_Strange_1995.pdf Plus other
additional/optional readings – email
for more information. |
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wk 4 Nov 3rd |
4.15pm V/C/027 |
Brown, Cynthia. (2000). The
interrelation between speech perception and phonological acquisition from
infant to adult. In Archibald, John (ed.) Second language acquisition and
linguistic theory. Oxford: Blackwell. pp.4-63. pdf |
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wk 6 Mon Nov 15th |
2.45pm for 3pm start Café Barista |
We will read and discuss
(all six!) papers from the ICPhS 2007 special
session on ‘Second Language Acquisition and Exemplar Theory’: http://www.icphs2007.de/conference/spsession02.html |
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wk8 Dec 1st |
2.15pm-3.15pm V/C/109A |
Rana will present her Accents
2010 talk (http://www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/accents2010/)
on diphthongs: “How do speakers of
a language like Arabic (with its limited diphthongal inventory) perceive and
produce English vowels (with its rich diphthongal inventory)?” |
2008-9
sessions/papers (for reference):
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18th March |
Baker, Wendy; Trofimovich, Pavel (2005).
Interaction of native- and second-language vowel system(s) in early and late
bilinguals. Language and Speech 48,1:1-27 (download here) |
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10th March |
Trofimovich, Pavel & Wendy Baker (2006) Effect
of L2 Experience on Prosody and Fluency Characteristics of L2 Speech. Studies
in Second Language Acquisition 28:1:1-30. doi:10.1017/S0272263106060013 |
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3rd March |
Place of
Articulation-Assimilation in the L2 English of Syrian Arabic Speakers. Visiting
speaker: Rawya Ranjous ( |
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24th
Feb |
Munro, Murray
J., (1993). Productions of English Vowels by Native Speakers of Arabic:
Acoustic Measurements and Accentedness Ratings. Language
and Speech, 36,1:39-66. [download here (from on campus)] |
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Mon 9th
Feb production |
Zampini,
Mary (2008) L2 speech production research: Findings, issues, and advances.
In: Hansen Edwards, Jette G. and Mary L. Zampini (eds.), Phonology and Second Language
Acquisition. pp. 219–249. (hard
copy available to borrow soon… outside V/C/211) |
Flege J.
E.-& Port, R. (1981) "Cross-language phonetic interference: Arabic
to English", Language and Speech 24, 2: 125-146. download link |
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Mon 2nd
Feb perception |
Strange, W.
& Shafer, V. (2008) Speech perception in second language learners: The
re-education of selective perception. In: Hansen Edwards, Jette
G. and Mary L. Zampini (eds.), Phonology and Second
Language Acquisition. pp. 153–191. (hard copy available to borrow, outside
V/C/211) |
Ingram, John C.
L. & See G. Park. 1997. Cross-language vowel perception and production by
Japanese and Korean learners of English. Journal of Phonetics. 25(3).
343-370. |
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Mon 26th
Jan vowels |
Yang, B. (1996).
A comparative study of American English and Korean vowels produced by male
and female speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 24, 245 - 261. doi:10.1006/jpho.1996.0013 |
Strange, W.,
Yamada, R., Kubo, R., Trent, S., Nishi, K., & Jenkins, J. (1998).
Perceptual assimilation of American English vowels by Japanese listeners. Journal
of Phonetics, 26, 311-344. |
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Tues 20th
Jan rhythm |
Deterding,
D. (2001). The measurement of rhythm: a comparison of |
White, Laurence
& Sven L. Mattys (2007). Calibrating rhythm:
First language and second language studies. Journal of Phonetics 35:
501–522 doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2007.02.003 |
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11th
Dec |
Munro, M. (2008)
Foreign accent and speech intelligibility. In Hansen Edwards & Zampini. Phonology and second language acquisition.
John Benjamins. (hard copy available to borrow
outside V/C/211) |
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8th
Dec |
John Archibald
(1994) A formal model of learning L2 prosodic phonology. Second Language
Research 1994; 10; 215. http://slr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/3/215
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Wayland, R.P., Guion, S.G., Landfair, D. Y Li,
B. (2006) Native Thai speakers’
acquisition of English word stress patterns. Journal of Psycholinguistic
Research 35, 285-304. http://www.springerlink.com/content/gu596430r7347j4g/?p=cd19f94ecde94f30baa7e2785405bdb4&pi=0 |
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1st
Dec |
Cutler, A.
(2001) Listening to a second language through the ears of a first. Interpreting
5, 1-23. (hard copy available to borrow, outside V/C/211) |
Altenberg,
E.P. (2005) The processing of word boundaries in a second language. Second
Language Research 21, 325-358. http://slr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/21/4/325
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24th
Nov |
Leather, J. (1999) Second-language speech
research: an introduction. Language Learning 49, 1-56. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119072607/PDFSTART |
Flege,
James E., Ocke S. Bohn, & Sunyoung
Jang. (1997) Effects of experience on non-native speakers' production and perception
of English vowels. Journal of Phonetics. 25 (4). 437-470. |
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5.10.2010.