Selected New Sounds 2007 papers to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing:

 

Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology: Perception and Production

M. A. Watkins, A. S. Rauber, & B. O. Baptista (Eds.)

 

 

 

Studies on Vowels

Cristina Aliaga-García & Joan C. Mora

Assessing the effects of phonetic training on L2 sound perception and production
Lidija Krebs-Lazendic & Catherine T. Best Early and late bilinguals’ vowel perception and production: English vowel contrast that gives Serbian-English bilinguals a H(E)AD-ache

Esther Gómez Lacabex,  María Luisa García Lecumberri, & Martin Cooke

Identification of the contrast full vowel-schwa: Training effects and generalization to a new perceptual context

Ian R. A. MacKay & Natalia Fullana

Starting age and exposure effects on EFL learners’ sound production in a formal learning context
Studies on Consonants

Chiara Celata

Allophonic variation can affect L2 speech perception: Evidence from a Tuscan neutralization process
Fred Eckman, Gregory Iverson, Robert Allen Fox, Ewa Jacewicz, & Soyoung Lee Perception and production in the acquisition of L2 phonemic contrasts

Natalia Fullana & Joan C. Mora

Production and perception of voicing contrasts in English word-final obstruents: Assessing the effects of experience and starting age

Paul John & Walcir Cardoso

Francophone ESL learners’ difficulties with English /h/

Denise Cristina Kluge, Mara Silvia Reis, Denize Nobre-Oliveira, & Melissa Bettoni-Techio The use of visual cues in the perception of English syllable-final nasals by Brazilian EFL learners
Studies on Syllable Structure
Melissa Bettoni-Techio & Rosana D. Koerich Perceptual training on the pronunciation of /s/-clusters in Brazilian Portuguese/English interphonology

Walcir Cardoso

When input frequency patterns fail to drive learning: The acquisition of sC onset clusters
Walcir Cardoso, Paul John, & Leif French The variable perception of /s/ + coronal onset clusters in Brazilian Portuguese English

Juli Cebrian

Interaction of L2 phonotactics and L1 syllable structure in L2 vowel production
Mehmet Yavaş Factors influencing the VOT of English long lag stops and interlanguage phonology
Beyond the Syllable
Roy C. Major & Barbara O. Baptista First language attrition in foreign accent detection
Rosane Silveira Investigating the role of orthography in the acquisition of L2 pronunciation: A case study

Magdalena Wrembel

The impact of voice quality resetting on the perception of a foreign accent in third language acquisition

Wim van Dommelen & Olaf Husby

Perception of Norwegian word tones by Chinese and German listeners
                                      

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