8.1779, Sum: Critical Period References

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Date:  Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:14:01 +0000 (GMT)
From:  "Martin Wynne" <eiamjw at comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject:  critical period summary

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Date:  Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:14:01 +0000 (GMT)
From:  "Martin Wynne" <eiamjw at comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject:  critical period summary

One month ago I mailed the following query:

  Can anyone please recommend any recent papers about evidence for or
  against a critical period in the acquisition of SECOND LANGUAGE
  PHONLOGY.

and I received many helpful responses which I have forwarded to a very
grateful postgraduate student. Here is an (unchecked) list of the
references that were recommended:

Asher and Garcia (date?), in Krashen, Scarcella, and Long (1982)
  _Child-Adult Differences in Second Language Acquisition_.
Bialystock, Ellen (1997).  The structure of age: in search of
  barriers to SLA. Second Lg Research 13.2 116-137
Birdsong forthcoming (several people mentioned this, but no further
 details were given - even the editor was too modest)
Bongaerts, T., B. Planken and E.Schils.  (1995).  Can late learners
  attain a native accent in a foreign language?  A test of the
  Critical Period Hypothesis.  In David Singleton and Zsolt Lengyel
  (eds.)The Age Factor in Second Language Acquisition.  Clevedon:
  Multilingual Matters.
Bongaerts, Theo et al, 1997, in Studies in Second Language
  Acquisition. The major works in L2 phonetics/phonology are cited in
  the list of references.  In this paper, Bongaerts and his colleagues
  show considerable evidence of nativelikeness, thus weakening the
  case for CP.
Chambers, J.K. 1992. Dialect Acquisition. Language.

Drews, Aaron E,
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ssis.pl/~pgc/proc97/Welcome.html

Flege (1995) Second language speech learning: Theory, Findings, and
  problems. In W. Strange (Ed), Speech perception and linguistic
  experience: Issues in cross-language speech research (pp. 233-277).
Flege, Frieda & Nozawa (1997). Amount of native-language (L1) use
  affects the pronunciation of an L2. Journal of Phonetics 25,
  169-186.
Flege, J.E., Takagi, N, Mann, V. (1995) Japanese Adults can Learn to
  Produce English /r/ and /l/ Accurately. "Language and Speech, 38"
  25-55.
Flege, James Emil; Munro, Murray J.; MacKay, Ian,R.A. (1995) Effects
  of age of second-language learning on the production of English
  consonants. Speech Communication. Vol 16(1) 1-26.
Flege, James. E. (1991) Perception and production: the relevance of
  phonetic input to L2 phonological learning. In T. Huebner and
  C.A. Ferguson (eds.) Crosscurrents in Second Language Acquisition.
  Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Flege, Munro and Mackay 1995. Factors affecting strength of perceived
  foreign accent in a second language. Journal of the Acoustic Society
  of America, 76 (3), 708-721.
Ioup, G., Boustagui, E., Tigi, M.E., and Moselle, M. (1994)
  Reexamining the Critical Period Hypothesis: a case study of
  successful adult SLA in a naturalistic environment. "Studies in
  Second Language Acquisition, 16" 73-98.
Johnson and Newport (1989) "Critical Period Effects in Second Language
  Learning: The Influence of Maturational State on the Acquisition of
  English as a Second Language".
Kim, Karl et al., "Distinct cortical areas associated with native and
  second languages."  It appeared in Nature, vol. 388, July 10, 1997
  p. 171 and following.
Logan, J.S., Lively, S.E., and Pisoni, D.B. (1991) Training Japanese
  Listeners to Identify English /r/ and /l/: a first report. "Journal
  of the Acoustical Society of America, 89" 874-896.
Long (1990). Maturational constraints on language develpment. Studies
  in Second Language Acquisition, 12 (3), 251-285.
Long, M.  (1993) Second language acquisition as a function of age:
  Research findings and methodological issues. In K. Hyltenstam and
  A. Viberg (eds.)  Progression and Regression in Language.
  Cambridge: CUP.
McLaughlin (1984) _Second Language Acquisition in Childhood: Volume 1.
  Preschool Children_.  (there is also a volume 2, for older children)
Munro,Murray J.; Flege,James Emil; MacKay, Ian R.A. (1996) The effects
  of age of second language learning on the production of English
  vowels. Applied Psycholinguistics. Vol 17(3) 313-334.
Obler, L. (1993) Neurolinguistic aspects of second language
  development and attrition.  In K. Hyltenstam and A.Viberg (eds.)
  Progression and Regression in Language.  Cambridge: CUP..
Patkowski, M. (1990).  Age and accent in a second language.  Reply to
  James Emil Flege.  Applied Linguistics 11:73-89.
Patkowski, Mark, 1884, "The critical age hypothesis and interlanguage
  phonology" (and references therein) in First and Second Language
  Phonology edited by Mehmet Yavas.
Riney, T.  (1990) Age and open syllable production in interlanguage
 phonology.  In H. Burmeister and P. Rounds (eds.)  Variability in
 Second Language Acquisition. Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the
 Second Language Research Forum.  Vol. 2.  Eugene: Department of
 Linguistics, University of Oregon.
Snow and Hoefnagel-Hohle (1978) "The Critical Period for Language
  Acquisition:  Evidence from Second Language Learning".
Strange, Winifred (Ed.). 1995.  Speech Perception and Linguistic
  Experience: Issues in Cross-Language Research.  Baltimore: York
  Press.  ISBN 0-912752-36-x
White and Genesee. 1996. How native is near-native? The issue of
  ultimate attainment in adult SLA. Second Lg Research 12, 233-265
Wode, H. (1993).  The development of phonological abilities.  In
  Kenneth Hyltenstam and Ake Viberg(eds.).  Progression and Regression
  in Language.  Cambridge: CUP.

Many thanks to:

Alice S. Horning <horning at oakland.edu>
Sarah Rosenzweig <rosenzws at carleton.edu>
Marc Picard <picard at vax2.concordia.ca>
Lynn Eubank <Leubank at facstaff.cas.unt.edu>
Ineke Mennen <ineke at ling.ed.ac.uk>
Aaron Drews <aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk>
David Birdsong <birdsong at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
Lynn Santelmann <santelmann at Waisman.Wisc.Edu>
Martha Young-Scholten <Martha.Young-Scholten at durham.ac.uk>
Yutaka Anraku <yanraku at in.aix.or.jp>
Tom Sawallis <afn48637 at afn.org>

and sorry to anyone who I've forgotten to list here.

Martin Wynne
Lancaster University & Goldsmiths College, London

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