James Emil Flege
University of Alabama at Birmingham
150 Papers
1.1K Citations
James Emil Flege is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vowel & First language. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 149 publications. Previous affiliations of James Emil Flege include University of Florida & National Research Council.
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Papers
Native-language phonotactic constraints affect how well Chinese subjects perceive the word-final English /t/-/d/ contrast
James Emil Flege,Chipin Wang +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that the Cantonese subjects were significantly more sensitive to the English /t/−/d/ contrast than the Mandarin subjects, with the Shanghainese subjects showing an intermediate level of performance.
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Chinese subjects' perception of the word-final English/t/-/d/ contrast: Performance before and after training
TL;DR: Chinese subjects who were native speakers of a language that permits obstruents in word-final position seemed to benefit more from the training than those whose native language (L1) has no word- final obstruent, interpreted to mean that syllable-processing strategies established during L1 acquisition may influence later L2 learning.
Evaluating the Effects of Chronological Age and Sentence Duration on Degree of Perceived Foreign Accent.
TL;DR: This article examined the effect of age of arrival (AOA) on the degree of perceived L2 foreign accent and found that the AOA is typically correlated with other variables that might influence degree of foreign accent.
Effect of lexical status on children's and adults' perception of native and non-native vowels
TL;DR: This article found that young children's phoneme boundary extended further away from the /I/ endpoint on the foreign continuum than did older children's and adults' and that the slopes of their identification functions were steeper, and thus more like those of older listeners.
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The interlingual identification of spanish and english vowels: Orthographic evidence
TL;DR: This article used orthographic classification to assess the interlingual identification of Spanish and English vowels and found that experienced Spanish speakers of English did use the "none" label more often than did inexperienced subjects (42% vs. 18%).