Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in an L2: a review

By Thorsten Piske, Ian R. A. MacKay, James Emil Flege. J. Phonetics, 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Interaction between the native and second language phonetic subsystems (2003, background): “, 1999a), overall degree of foreign accent in L2 sentences (Flege et al., 1995a; YeniKomshian et al., 2000; Piske et al., 2001) and the recognition of L2 words presented in noise (Mayo et al.”
Perceived foreign accent in first language attrition and second language acquisition: The impact of age of acquisition and bilingualism (2011, background): “…the target-language environment before age 10 tend to adopt the L2 as the main language of communication, whereas late L2ers retain higher degrees of use of the L1 in the target-language environment as well as in contacts to their home community (e.g., Jia, Aaronson & Wu, 2002; Piske et al., 2001).”
Teaching pronunciation: Is explicit phonetics instruction beneficial for FL learners? (2013, background): “instruction has been shown to improve L2 production accuracy (Neufeld, 1977; Piske et al., 2001) in L2 as well as FL contexts, including English (Pennington & Richards, 1986), French”
Assessing constraints on second-language segmental production and perception (2003, background): “Degree of foreign accent in the L2 depends on amount of continued L1 use (e.g., Piske, MacKay, and Flege 2001).”
Evaluating the effects of chronological age and sentence duration on degree of perceived foreign accent (2006, background): “research (Piske et al., 2001), sentences produced by the two groups of late learners (late-low, late-high) received lower ratings, indicating stronger foreign accents, than sentences produced by the two groups of early learners (early-low, earlyhigh).”
Do Language Attitudes Determine Accent? A Study of Bilinguals in the USA (2007, result): “In addition to an early start, a native-like accent is often shown to correlate to long-term residence in the target-language country, however, statistical analyses of this factor’s significance have resulted in contradictory findings across studies (see Piske et al., 2001).”
Phonological Awareness and Speech Comprehensibility: An Exploratory Study (2007, background): “memory capacity’ and ‘phonological working memory speed’ (Robinson, 2005: 51). Although Robinson indicates support for the idea that success in classroom learning correlates with measures of aptitude, there is little evidence that aptitude tests (which heavily focus on phonological awareness and pat”