Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress

This volume is a comprehensive survey of second language speech research, featuring new empirical studies and a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model. It covers five thematic areas, providing new insights into the second language speech acquisition process. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and phonetics and phonology.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 535 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2024
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This comprehensive volume, comprising contributions from a team of esteemed international scholars, serves as a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research. It showcases a diverse range of empirical studies alongside critical reviews of influential speech learning models. The book presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, offering an update on a cornerstone of second language research. The chapters are organized into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Each chapter presents fresh empirical evidence, providing new insights and posing challenges to various aspects of the second language speech acquisition process.

Comprehensive in its scope, this book summarizes the current state of research in second language phonology and aims to shape and inspire future endeavors in the field. It serves as an invaluable resource for academic researchers, students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and phonetics and phonology.

Weight: 766g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108814614