Journal articles: 1977 to 1989
  • Flege, J. (1989). Differences in inventory size affects the location but not the
    precision of tongue positioning in vowel production. Language & Speech, 32,
    123-147.

  • Flege, J. (1989). Chinese subjects' perception of the word-final English /t/-/d/
    contrast: Performance before and after training. Journal of the Acoustical
    Society of America, 86, 1684-1697.

  • Flege, J. (1989). Using visual information to train foreign language vowel
    production. Language Learning, 38, 365-407.

  • Flege, J. & Bohn, O.-S. (1989). An instrumental study of vowel reduction and
    stress placement in Spanish-accented English. Studies in Second Language
    Acquisition, 11, 35-62.

  • Flege, J. (1988). The development of skill in producing word-final /p/ and /b/:
    Kinematic parameters. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 84, 1639-
    1652.

  • Flege, J. (1988). Factors affecting degree of perceived foreign accent in
    English sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 84, 70-79.

  • Flege, J. (1988). Effects of speaking rate on tongue position and velocity of
    movement in vowel production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
    84, 901-917.

  • Flege, J. (1988). Anticipatory and carry-over nasal coarticulation the speech
    of children and adults. Journal of Speech and Hear. Research, 31, 525-536.

  • Flege, J. & Eefting, W. (1988). Imitation of a VOT continuum by native
    speakers of English and Spanish: Evidence for phonetic category formation.
    Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 83, 729-740.


  • Flege, J. (1987). The instrumental study of L2 speech production: Some
    methodological considerations. Language Learning, 37, 285-296.

  • Flege, J. & Eefting, W. (1987). Cross-language switching in stop consonant
    production and perception by Dutch speakers of English. Speech
    Communication, 6, 185-202.

  • Flege, J. & Hillenbrand, J. (1987). Differential use of closure voicing and
    release burst as cue to stop voicing by native speakers of French and
    English. Journal of Phonetics, 15, 203-208.


  • Flege, J. (1987). A critical period for learning to pronounce foreign
    languages? Applied Linguistics, 8, 162-177.

  • Flege, J. & Eefting, W. (1987). The production and perception of English
    stops by Spanish speakers of English. Journal of Phonetics, 15, 67-83.

  • Flege, J. (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.



  • Flege, J. & Hillenbrand, J. (1986). Differential use of temporal cues to the [s-z]
    contrast by native and non-native speakers of English. Journal of the
    Acousical Society of America, 79, 508-517.


  • Flege, J. (1984). The effect of linguistic experience on Arabs' perception of
    the English /s/ vs. /z/ contrast. Folia Linguistica, 18, 117-138.

  • Flege, J. (1984). The detection of French accent by American listeners.
    Journal of the Acousical Society of America, 76, 692-707.

  • Flege, J. & Hillenbrand, J. (1984). Limits on pronunciation accuracy in adult
    foreign language speech production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
    America, 76, 708-721.


  • Flege, J. (1983). The influence of stress, position, and utterance length on
    the pressure characteristics of English /p/ and /b/. Journal of Speech &
    Hearing Research, 26, 111-118.

  • Flege, J. (1982). The effects of utterance position on English speech timing.
    Phonetica, 39, 337-357.

  • Flege, J. & Hammond, R. (1982). Mimicry of non-distinctive phonetic
    differences between language varieties. Studies in Second Language
    Acquisition, 5, 1-18.

  • Flege, J. & Brown, W., Jr. (1982). The voicing contrast between English /p/
    and /b/ as a function of stress and position-in-utterance. Journal of Phonetics,
    10, 335-345.

  • Flege, J. (1982). Laryngeal timing and phonation onset in utterance-initial
    English stops. Journal of Phonetics, 10, 177-192.

  • Flege, J.E. (1981). The phonological basis of foreign accent. TESOL
    Quarterly, 15, 443-455.

  • Flege, J. & Port, R. (1981). Cross-language phonetic interference: Arabic to
    English. Language & Speech, 24, 125-146.

  • Flege, J. (1980). Phonetic approximation in second language acquisition.
    Language Learning, 30, 117-134.

  • Flege, J. (1977) Generative phonology and psychological reality. Language
    Sciences, 48, 17-22.