Assessing constraints on second-language segmental production and perception

By James Emil Flege. 2003

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Investigating the role of attention in phonetic learning (2007, background): “Flege’s Speech Learning Model (SLM, e.g., Flege 1995; 2003 ) posits that adult”
An Empirical Study on L2 Accents of Cross-lingual Text-to-Speech Systems via Vowel Space (2022, result): “A phenomenon similar to this is also observed in some studies on human L2 learners, that adult L2 learners exhibit difficulty with non-native phonological segments [31].”
Language selectivity is the exception, not the rule: Arguments against a fixed locus of language selection in bilingual speech (2006, background): “Although a great deal of research on speech perception and production has examined the acquisition of phonology in L2 learners (e.g. Flege, 2003), only a few studies have experimentally investigated the consequences of language proficiency at more abstract levels of planning.”
Does a Speaking Task Affect Second Language Comprehensibility (2015, background): “standpoint, nearly all conceptual frameworks of L2 speech learning predict L1-specific influences on production (e.g., Eckman, 2004; Escudero & Boersma, 2004; Flege, 2003).”
Effects of Form-Focused Instruction and Corrective Feedback on L2 Pronunciation Development of /ɹ/ by Japanese Learners of English (2012, background): “…pronunciation rules) but also physical action (i.e., motor activities); that is, L2 learners need to develop abilities to manipulate articulatory organs properly to produce correct L2 sounds (see Flege, 2003, for a discussion of peculiarities of L2 speech production compared to other L2 skills).”
The linguistic perception of similar L2 sounds (2009, background): “This differentiation between “new” and “similar” sounds is also found in many other models of L2 sound perception, such as Flege’s Speech Learning Model (Flege 1995, 2003, 2004), Best’s Perceptual Assimilation model (Best 1995, 2003), Major’s Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (Major 2001, 2002), Kuhl’s…”
Second Language Comprehensibility Revisited: Investigating the Effects of Learner Background (2015, background): “…in L2 pronunciation learning ascribe an important role to speakers’ first language (L1) in determining the rate and ultimate success of learning (e.g., Eckman, 2004; Escudero & Boersma, 2004; Flege, 2003), previous research on comprehensibility and accent paid little attention to speakers’ L1.”
Examining the role of explicit phonetic instruction in native-like and comprehensible pronunciation development: an instructed SLA approach to L2 phonology (2011, background): “…shown that it is tremendously difficult to attain native-like L2 pronunciation skills and foreign accent is a normal aspect of L2 speech (e.g. Flege, 2003; Piske, MacKay, & Flege, 2001), Derwing and Munro (2005) claimed that L2 speech should be considered from two different perspectives:…”
REEXAMINING EFFECTS OF FORM-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION ON L2 PRONUNCIATION DEVELOPMENT (2012, background): “…the nature of the category changes over time according to different stages of L2 development (e.g., perceptual assimilation model: Best & Tyler, 2007 ; BundgaardNielsen, Best, & Tyler, 2011 a, 2011b ; speech learning model: Flege, 1995 , 2003 , 2009 ; lexical restructuring model: Walley, 2007 ).”
The Influence of Initial Exposure on Lexical Representation: Comparing Early and Simultaneous Bilinguals. (2005, background): “…is progressive (Bialystok & Hakuta, 1999; Birdsong, 1992, 1999, in press; Birdsong & Molis, 2001; Bongaerts, 1999; DeKeyser & Larsen-Hall, in press; Flege, 2003; Flege & Hillenbrandt, 1984; Flege, Yeni-Komshian, & Liu, 1999; Hyltenstam & Abrahamsson, 2000; Johnson & Newport, 1989, 1991; Marler,…”
The development of phonetic representation in bilingual and monolingual infants (2007, background): “The work on adults is largely based on individuals who learned their second language (L2) after infancy (Best, 1995; Flege, 2003 ), and suggests that phonetic representation is substantively different in bilinguals.”
Evaluating the effects of chronological age and sentence duration on degree of perceived foreign accent (2006, background): “According to the SLM, AOA effects are primarily due to variation in the state of development of the L1 phonetic system at the time L2 learning begins.”