Segmentals and global foreign accent: The Japanese flap in EFL

By T. Riney, Mari Takada, Mitsuhiko Ota. 2000

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Effects of Second Language Pronunciation Teaching Revisited: A Proposed Measurement Framework and Meta‐Analysis (2019, background): “For another example, when asked to rate for global foreign accentedness, it has been shown that listeners take into account not only phonological accuracy (Riney et al., 2000) but also lexicogrammatical sophistication (Ruivivar & Collins, 2018).”
Perceived phonetic dissimilarity and L2 speech learning: the case of Japanese /r/ and English /l/ and /r/ (2004, background): “…accurate than their production of [a] at an early stage of learning, because English [l] is perceptually more similar to Japanese [N] than English [a] is (Sekiyama & Tohkura, 1993; Takagi, 1993), and because Japanese [N] is substituted for English [l] more often than for [a] (Riney et al., 2000).”