The Acquisition of L2 Phonology

Researchers and practitioners, applied linguists, and teachers, most of them Polish but representing five nationalities, share their experience and insights into acquiring the phonological system of a second language. Covering in turn phonetic analysis, phonological analysis, and pedagogical perspectives, they explore such topics as phonetic negative transfer from Chinese to English, the perception of the English voice onset time continuum by Polish learners, a cross-linguistic perspective on the role of phonological awareness in beginning reading, and insights from diary data on the successes and failures of students in learning foreign language pronunciation. There is no index. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Janusz Arabski and Adam Wojtaszek both work at the University of Silesia, Poland. Their research interests include psycholinguistics, language acquisition and linguistic pragmatics. They are the editors of Second Language Acquisition Studies in Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspective, recently published by Multilingual Matters. The editors and the contributing authors are active members of many scientific committees and organizations devoted to the investigation of language acquisition processes, they regularly participate in many conferences and publish extensively. The author list comprises very experienced scholars as well as young and promising researchers.