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  • I retired from UAB in 2006 and currently live in Italy

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2019 An acoustic analysis of American English liquids by adults and children: Native English speakers and native Japanese speakers of English 2019
    2019 The role of input in native Spanish Late learners' production and perception of English phonetic segments 2019
    2018 It's input that matters most, not age.  Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.  21:919-920. 2018
    2011 A one-year longitudinal study of English and Japanese vowel production by Japanese adults and children in an English-speaking setting.  Journal of Phonetics.  39:156-167. 2011
    2008 Child-Adult Differences in Second-Language Phonological Learning: The Role of Cross-Language Similarity.  Language and Speech.  51:317-342. 2008
    2008 The first years in an L2-speaking environment: A comparison of Japanese children and adults learning American English 2008
    2008 Child-adult differences in second-language phonological learning: the role of cross-language similarity.  Language and Speech.  51:317-342. 2008
    2006 Early learners' discrimination of second-language vowels. 2006
    2006 Degree of foreign accent in English sentences produced by Korean children and adults.  Journal of Phonetics.  34:153-175. 2006
    2006 Evaluating the effects of chronological age and sentence duration on degree of perceived foreign accent.  Applied Psycholinguistics.  27:157-183. 2006
    2006 Early learners' discrimination of second-language vowels 2006
    2006 Editors' report for volume 49.  Language and Speech.  49:549-550. 2006
    2006 Evaluating the effects of chronological age and sentence duration on degree of perceived foreign accent.  Applied Psycholinguistics.  27:157-183. 2006
    2005 Lexical frequency and neighborhood density effects on the recognition of native and Spanish-accented words by native English and Spanish listeners 2005
    2005 A developmental study of English vowel production and perception by native Korean adults and children.  Journal of Phonetics.  33:263-290. 2005
    2004 Release bursts in English word-final voiceless stops produced by native English and Korean adults and children 2004
    2004 Effects of the age of second language learning on the duration of first and second language sentences: The role of suppression.  Applied Psycholinguistics.  25:373-396. 2004
    2004 PERCEIVING VOWELS IN A SECOND LANGUAGE.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition.  26:1-34. 2004
    2004 Perceiving vowels in a second language.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition.  26:1-34. 2004
    2004 Perceived phonetic dissimilarity and L2 speech learning: The case of Japanese /r/ and English /l/ and /r/.  Journal of Phonetics.  32:233-250. 2004
    2003 Interaction between the native and second language phonetic subsystems.  Speech Communication.  40:467-491. 2003
    2002 Assessing bilingual dominance.  Applied Psycholinguistics.  23:567-598. 2002
    2002 The influence of L1 on the acquisition of Swedish quantity by native speaker of Spanish, English and Estonian.  Journal of Phonetics.  30:229-258. 2002
    2002 The production of English vowels by fluent early and late Italian-English bilinguals 2002
    2001 The effect of experience on adults' acquisition of a second language.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition.  23:527-552. 2001
    2001 Effects of word class differences on L2 pronunciation accuracy.  Applied Psycholinguistics.  22:283-299. 2001
    2001 Category restructuring during second-language speech acquisition 2001
    2001 Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in an L2: A review.  Journal of Phonetics.  29:191-215. 2001
    2001 The identification of English consonants by native speakers of Italian 2001
    2000 Pronunciation proficiency in the first and second languages of Korean–English bilinguals.  Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.  3:131-149. 2000
    2000 An investigation of current models of second language speech perception: The case of Japanese adults' perception of English consonants 2000
    2000 An investigation of current models of second language speech perception: the case of Japanese adults' perception of English consonants. 2000
    2000 Factors affecting the recognition of words in a second language.  Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.  3:55-67. 2000
    2000 Adults' Perception and Production of the English Vowel /i/.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.  43:129-143. 2000
    2000 Age of learning effects on the duration of sentences produced in a second language.  Applied Psycholinguistics.  21:205-228. 2000
    2000 The effect of L1 use on production in Quichua - Spanish bilinguals.  Journal of Phonetics.  28:27-42. 2000
    1999 Native Italian speakers' perception and production of English vowels 1999
    1999 Canadians in Alabama: A perceptual study of dialect acquisition in adults.  Journal of Phonetics.  27:385-403. 1999
    1999 Adults' perception of native and nonnative vowels: Implications for the perceptual magnet effect 1999
    1999 Age Constraints on Second-Language Acquisition.  Journal of Memory and Language.  41:78-104. 1999
    1999 Effect of lexical status on children's and adults' perception of native and non-native vowels.  Journal of Phonetics.  27:307-332. 1999
    1999 Scaling foreign accent: Direct magnitude estimation versus interval scaling 1999
    1998 The Phonetic Study of Bilingualism 1998
    1998 CHANGES over TIME in GLOBAL FOREIGN ACCENT and LIQUID IDENTIFIABILITY and ACCURACY.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition.  20:213-243. 1998
    1998 LEXICAL FACTORS and SEGMENTAL ACCURACY in SECOND LANGUAGE SPEECH PRODUCTION.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition.  20:155-187. 1998
    1997 Amount of native-language (L1) use affects the pronunciation of an L2.  Journal of Phonetics.  25:169-186. 1997
    1997 Effects of experience on non-native speakers' production and perception of English vowels.  Journal of Phonetics.  25:437-470. 1997
    1997 Pronunciation proficiency in L1 and L2 among Korean–English bilinguals: The effect of age of arrival in the U.S 1997
    1996 The effects of age of second language learning on the production of English vowels.  Applied Psycholinguistics.  17:313-334. 1996
    1996 Lexical familiarity and English-language experience affect Japanese adults' perception of / / and /l/. 1996
    1996 Age of learning affects rate-dependent processing of stops in a second language 1996
    1996 Lexical familiarity and English-language experience affect Japanese adults' perception of /Modifier letter small turned r sign/ and /l/ 1996
    1996 Speaking rate effects on stops produced by spanish and english monolinguals and spanish/english bilinguals 1996
    1996 The effects of age of second language learning on the production of English vowels.  Applied Psycholinguistics.  17:313-334. 1996
    1995 Factors affecting strength of perceived foreign accent in a second language. 1995
    1995 Effects of age of second-language learning on the production of English consonants.  Speech Communication.  16:1-26. 1995
    1995 Effects of speaking rate changes on native and nonnative speech production 1995
    1995 Factors affecting strength of perceived foreign accent in a second language 1995
    1995 Japanese Adults can Learn to Produce English /I/ and /l/ Accurately.  Language and Speech.  38:25-55. 1995
    1995 Japanese adults can learn to produce English /r/ and /l/ accurately..  Language and Speech.  38. 1995
    1995 Native speakers of Spanish show rate-dependent processing of english stop consonants 1995
    1995 The perception of English and Spanish vowels by native English and Spanish listeners: A multidimensional scaling analysis 1995
    1995 Two procedures for training a novel second language phonetic contrast.  Applied Psycholinguistics.  16:425-442. 1995
    1994 The word unit in second language speech production and perception.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition.  16:381-411. 1994
    1994 Auditory and categorical effects on cross-language vowel perception 1994
    1993 Perceptual Switching in Spanish/English Bilinguals.  Journal of Phonetics.  21:267-290. 1993
    1993 Production and perception of a novel, second-language phonetic contrast 1993
    1992 Production of the word-final English /t/-/d/ contrast by native speakers of English, Mandarin, and Spanish 1992
    1992 Talker and listener effects on degree of perceived foreign accent 1992
    1992 The Production Of New And Similar Vowels By Adult German Learners Of English.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition.  14:131-158. 1992
    1991 The Interlingual Identification of Spanish and English Vowels: Orthographic Evidence.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Series a Human Experimental Psychology.  43:701-731. 1991
    1991 Vowel Context, Rate and Loudness Effects on Linguopalatal Contact Patterns in Hindi Retroflex //.  Journal of Phonetics.  19:213-229. 1991
    1991 Age of learning affects the authenticity of voice-onset time (VOT) in stop consonants produced in a second language 1991
    1990 Interlingual identification and the role of foreign language experience in L2 vowel perception.  Applied Psycholinguistics.  11:303-328. 1990
    1990 The design of a microcomputer-controlled voice onset time analyzer.  Biomedical instrumentation & technology / Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.  24:357-362. 1990
    1989 Native-Language Phonotactic Constraints Affect How Well Chinese Subjects Perceive the Word-Final English /t/-/d/ Contrast.  Journal of Phonetics.  17:299-315. 1989
    1989 Differences in inventory size affect the location but not the precision of tongue positioning in vowel production..  Language and Speech.  32. 1989
    1989 An instrumental study of vowel reduction and stress placement in spanish-accented english.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition.  11:35-62. 1989
    1989 Chinese subjects' perception of the word-final English /1/-/d/ contrast: Performance before and after training 1989
    1989 Differences in inventory size affect the location but not the precision of tongue positioning in vowel production.  Language and Speech.  32:123-147. 1989
    1989 Erratum: “The development of skill in producing word-final English stops: Kinematic parameters” [ J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 84,1639-1652 (1988)] 1989
    1989 The Acquisition of Second Language Phonological Systems in a Communicative Framework-the Role of Attitudes and Experience 1989
    1988 Anticipatory and carry-over nasal coarticulation in the speech of children and adults.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.  31:525-536. 1988
    1988 Compensating for a bite block in Is/ and /t/ production: Palatographic, acoustic, and perceptual data 1988
    1988 Effects of speaking rate on tongue position and velocity of movement in vowel production 1988
    1988 Factors affecting degree of perceived foreign accent in English sentences 1988
    1988 Imitation of a VOT continuum by native speakers of English and Spanish: Evidence for phonetic category formation 1988
    1988 The development of skill in producing word-final English stops: Kinematic parameters 1988
    1988 Using Visual Information to Train Foreign‐Language Vowel Production 1988
    1987 A critical period for learning to pronounce foreign languages?.  Applied Linguistics.  8:162-177. 1987
    1987 Acknowledgment of readers for volume 9.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition.  9:396. 1987
    1987 Cross-language switching in stop consonant perception and production by Dutch speakers of english.  Speech Communication.  6:185-202. 1987
    1987 Production and Perception of English Stops by Native Spanish Speakers.  Journal of Phonetics.  15:67-83. 1987
    1987 The Instrumental Study of L2 Speech Production: Some Methodological Considerations 1987
    1987 The Production of 'New' and 'Similar' Phones in a Foreign Language: Evidence for the Effect of Equivalence Classification.  Journal of Phonetics.  15:47-65. 1987
    1987 The development of skill in producing word-final English stops 1987
    1986 The physiological specification of American English vowels..  Language and Speech.  29. 1986
    1986 Differential use of temporal cues to the /s/-/z/ contrast by native and non-native speakers of English 1986
    1986 Linguistic and developmental effects on the production and perception of stop consonants 1986
    1986 The physiological specification of American English vowels.  Language and Speech.  29:361-388. 1986
    1984 Limits on phonetic accuracy in foreign language speech production 1984
    1984 Perception of the voiced-voiceless contrast in syllable-final stops 1984
    1984 The Effect of Linguistic Experience on Arabs' Perception of the English /s/ vs. /z/ Contrast.  Folia Linguistica.  18:117-138. 1984
    1984 The detection of french accent by american listeners 1984
    1984 Transfer and developmental processes in adult foreign language speech production.  Applied Psycholinguistics.  5:323-347. 1984
    1983 The influence of stress, position, and utterance length on the pressure characteristics of English /p/ and /b/.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.  26:111-118. 1983
    1982 The Voicing Contrast between English /p/ and /b/ as a Function of Stress and Position-in-Utterance.  Journal of Phonetics.  10:335-345. 1982
    1982 Laryngeal Timing and Phonation Onset in Utterance-Initial English Stops.  Journal of Phonetics.  10:177-192. 1982
    1982 Effects of utterance position on English speech timing. 1982
    1982 Mimicry of Non-distinctive Phonetic Differences Between Language Varieties.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition.  5:1-17. 1982
    1981 Cross-language phonetic interference: Arabic to English.  Language and Speech.  24:125-146. 1981
    1981 The Phonological Basis of Foreign Accent: A Hypothesis 1981
    1980 PHONETIC APPROXIMATION IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 1980
    1977 Psychological Reality and Generative Phonology 1977

    Chapter

    Year Title Altmetric
    2015 Effects of Spanish use on the production of Catalan vowels by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals.  33-54. 2015
    2011 Assessing constraints on second-language segmental production and perception.  319-358. 2011
    2011 English vowel production by Dutch talkers: more evidence for the “similar” vs “new” distinction.  11-52. 2011
    2011 Investigating Native and Non-Native Vowels Produced in Conversational Speech.  195-205. 2011
    2011 Perpeption and production of a new vowel category by adult second language learners.  53-74. 2011
    2011 What Accounts for 'Age' Effects on Overall Degree of Foreign Accent?.  65-82. 2011
    2011 Why Are the Catalan Contrasts between /e/-/e/ and /o/-/ɔ/ So Difficult for Even Early Spanish-Catalan Bilinguals to Perceive?.  183-193. 2011
    2008 Give Input a Chance!.  175-190. 2008
    2007 Language Contact in Bilingualism: Phonetic System Interactions.  353-381. 2007
    2003 Second-Language Sound Learning in Children and Adults: Learning Sounds, Words, or Both?.  775-786. 2003
    2002 The Effect of Perceived Phonetic Similarity on Non-Native Sound Learning by Children and Adults.  36-47. 2002
    2001 Regular-Irregular Dissociations in L2 Acquisition of English Morphology.  123-132. 2001
    1996 Factors Affecting the Production of Word-initial Consonants in a Second Language.  47. 1996
    1992 5. The intelligibility of English vowels spoken by British and Dutch talkers.  157. 1992
    1987 Effects of Equivalence Classification on the Production of Foreign Language Speech Sounds.  9-39. 1987

    Education And Training

  • Northwestern University Communication Sciences and Disorders, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Master of Arts in Linguistics, Indiana University System : Indiana University-Bloomington 2000
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, Indiana University System : Indiana University-Bloomington 1979

    • Full Name

  • James Flege