Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010

Magdalena Wrembel is assistant professor at Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poznań (Poland), and her research areas involve SLA of speech, phonological acquisition of the third language, language awareness and innovative trends in pronunciation pedagogy.Małgorzata Kul is assistant professor at AMU interested in metaphonology, articulatory effort and phonological processes, in particular lenition in both speech and writing.Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk is professor and head of the School of English AMU. She has published extensively on phonology, phonetics and second language acquisition advocating the Natural Linguistic approach to language.

• Contents: Rana Alhussein Almbark: Production and perception of SSBE vowels by Syrian Arabic speakers – Elena Babatsouli/Ioanna Kappa: Transfer of Greek palatals in L2 English – Juli Cebrian: Cross-linguistic perception of diphthongs by Spanish/Catalan speakers and English speakers – Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk/Daria Zielińska: Universal phonotactic and morphonotactic preferences in second language acquisition – James E. Flege/Ian R. A. MacKay: What accounts for «age» effects on overall degree of foreign accent? – Natalia Fullana/Ian R. A. MacKay: L2 fluency in the production of English extemporaneous speech by Catalan/Spanish bilinguals – Jane F. Hacking: The production of palatalized and unpalatalized consonants in Russian by American learners – Tetsuo Harada: Diminutive long-term effects of early immersion on L2 segmental timing in adulthood – Haisheng Jiang: Effect of L2 phonetic learning on the production of L1 vowels: A study of Mandarin-English bilinguals in Canada – Nuria Kaufmann/Martin Meyer/Stephan Schmid: Serbian affricates contrasts in foreign language perception investigated by means of a neurophysiological experiment – Romana Kopečková: Learning vowel sounds in a migrant setting: The case of Polish children and adults in Ireland – Nancy C. Kula: Revisiting final-devoicing in the L2 acquisition of final voicing contrasts – Wander Lowie: Early L2 phonology: A dynamic approach – Irina Marinescu: How native dialect shapes non-native perception: Peninsular and Cuban listeners of English – Joan C. Mora/James L. Keidel/James E. Flege: Why are the Catalan contrasts between /e/-/ε/ and /o/-/ɔ/ so difficult for even early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals to perceive? – Thorsten Piske/James E. Flege/Ian R. A. MacKay/Diane Meador: Investigating native and non-native vowels produced in conversational speech – Monika Połczyńska/Marta Marecka: First and second language phonological processes in clinical populations – Adèle-Elise Prévost/Heather Goad/Karsten Steinhauer: Prosodic transfer: An event-related potentials approach – Laurent Rasier/Philippe Hiligsmann/Johanneke Caspers/Vincent J. van Heuven: Accentual marking of information status in Dutch and French as foreign languages: Production and perception – Arkadiusz Rojczyk: Production and perception of vowel /æ/ by Polish learners of English – Minnaleena Toivola/Mietta Lennes/Jenni Korvala/Eija Aho: A longitudinal study of speech rate and pauses in non-native Finnish – Eleni Tsiartsioni: An acoustic analysis of L2 English speech rhythm among Greek children and adolescents – Verónica del Carmen Villafaña Rojas: On the acquisition of English stress by Spanish native speakers – Steven H. Weinberger/Stephen A. Kunath: A computational model for accent identification – Mehmet Yavaş: The role of sonority in the acquisition of interlanguage coda clusters – Paulina Zydorowicz: The retrieval of potentially morphologically complex clusters in English and Polish.