Perceived phonetic dissimilarity and L2 speech learning: the case of Japanese /r/ and English /l/ and /r/

By Katsura Aoyama, James Emil Flege, Susan G. Guion, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Tsuneo Yamada. J. Phonetics, 2004

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Nonnative and second-language speech perception : commonalities and complementarities (2007, background): “…with revisions) 6 : No significant differences have been found between SLA adults with 6-12 months of experience and those with 1.5 years, or between those with +/-2 years, or +/-5 years of experience (see Aoyama et al., 2004; Jia et al., 2005, accepted with revisions; Tsukada et al., 2005).”
Development of the ability to lexically encode novel second language phonemic contrasts (2008, background): “(although they are not equally good members of the category; Aoyama et al., 2004) that native speakers of Japanese treat them as allophones of /ɾ/.”