Conference Proceedings

  • Flege, J. & MacKay, I. (2010). "Age" effects on second language acquisition.
    Proceeding of the 6th International Symposia on the Acquisition of Second-
    langauge Speech, May 1-3, 2010, Poznan, Poland [http://www.ifa.amu.edu.
    pl/newsounds/introduction].


  • Trofimovich, P., Baker, W., Flege, J. E., & Mack, M. (2003). Second-language
    sound learning in children and adults: Learning sounds, words, or both? In B.
    Beachley, A. Brown, & F. Conlin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Boston
    University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla
    Press. Pp. 775-786.

  • Imai, S., Flege, J., & Walley, A. (2003). Spoken word recognition of accented
    and unaccented speech: Lexical factors affecting native and nonnative
    listeners. In M. Solé, D. Recasens & J. Romero (Eds) Proceedings of 15th
    International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Barcelona: Casual Productions,
    Pp. 845-848.

  • Tsukada, K., Birdsong, D., Bialystok, E., Mack, M., Sung, H., & Flege, J.
    (2003). The perception and production of English /  / and /  / by Korean
    Children and Adults living in North America. In M. Solé, D. Recasens & J.
    Romero (Eds) Proceedings of 15th International Congress of Phonetics
    Sciences, Barcelona: Casual Productions, Pp. 1589-1592. [this report
    focussed on the vowels in "bed" and "bad"]

  • Flege, J. (2002). No perfect bilinguals. In A. James & J. Leather (Eds) New
    Sounds 2000: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the
    Acquisition of Second-Language Speech. University of Klagenfurt, Pp. 132-141.

  • Baker, W., Trofimovich, P., Mack, M., & Flege, J. (2002). The effect of
    perceived phonetic similarity on non-native sound learning by children and
    adults. In B. Skarabela, S. Fish & A. Do (Eds) Proceedings of the 26th annual
    Boston University Conference on Language Development (Somerville, MA:
    Cascadilla Press), Pp. 36-47.

  • Birdsong, D. & Flege, J. (2001). Regular-irregular dissociations in the
    acquisition of English as a second language. In BUCLD 25: Proceedings of the
    25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
    (Boston, MA: Cascadilla Press) Pp. 123-132.

  • McAllister, R., Flege, J., & Piske, T. (1999). The Acquisition of Swedish long
    vs. short vowel contrasts by native speakers of English and Spanish. In J.
    Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D. Granveille & A. Bailey (Eds) Proceedings of
    the XIVth International Congress of Phonetics Sciences (Berkeley, CA:
    Department of Linguistics, Univ. of California at Berkeley), Pp. 751-754.

  • Piske, T. & MacKay, I.. (1999). Age and L1 Use effects on degree of foreign
    accent in English. In J. Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D. Granveille & A.
    Bailey (Eds) Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetics
    Sciences (Berkeley, CA: Department of Linguistics, Univ. of California at
    Berkeley), Pp. 1433-1436.

  • Flege, J.. (1999). The relation between L2 production and perception. In J.
    Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D. Granveille & A. Bailey (Eds) Proceedings of
    the XIVth International Congress of Phonetics Sciences (Berkeley, CA:
    Department of Linguistics, Univ. of California at Berkeley), Pp. 1273-1276.

  • Guion, S., Flege, J., & Loftin, J. (1999). The effect of L1 use on foreign accent
    ratings in Quicha-Spanish bilinguals. In J. Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D.
    Granveille & A. Bailey (Eds.) Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress
    of Phonetics Sciences (Berkeley, CA: Department of Linguistics, Univ. of
    California at Berkeley), Pp. 1471-1474.

  • Flege, J., Yeni-Komshian, G. & Liu, S. (1999). Age Constraints on Learning L2
    Phonology and Morphosyntax. Proceedings of the the Joint Meeting of the
    16th International Congress on Acoustics and the 137th Meeting of the
    Acoustical Society of America, Berlin, 15-19 March, 1999.  

  • Piske, T., Flege, J., MacKay, I., & Meador, D. (1999). Non-natives’ production
    of vowels in conversational speech. Proceedings of the the Joint Meeting of
    the 16th International Congress on Acoustics and the 137th Meeting of the
    Acoustical Society of America, Berlin, 15-19 March, 1999.

  • Flege, J. (1998). The role of subject and phonetic variables in L2 speech
    acquisition. In M. Gruber, D. Higgins, K. Olsen, and T. Wysocki (eds.) Papers
    from the 34th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Volume II, The
    Panels.  Chicago:  Chicago Linguistic Society. Pp. 213-232.

  • Flege, J. (1998). Second-language Learning: The Role of Subject and
    Phonetic Variables. In Proceedingsof the ESCA Workshop on Speech
    Technology in Language Learning (Marholmen, Sweden, May 24-27, 1998).
    Pp. 1-9.

  • Flege, J., Guion, S., Akahane-Yamada, R., & Downs-Pruitt, J. (1998).
    Categorial discrimination of English and Japanese vowels and consonants by
    native Japanese and English subjects  Proceedings of the 16th International
    Congress on Acoustics and the 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
    America, Volume IV. Edited by P. Kuhl and L. Crum. New York, Acoustical
    Society of America. Pp. 2973-2974.

  • Nozawa, T., & Flege, J. (1998). Perception of English vowels by Japanese
    speakers residing in the United States, Psychology and Learning of Language,
    65-77. Tokyo: Kinseido (Japan Society of Speech), Pp. 65-77.

  • Flege, J. (1997). The role of category formation in second-language speech
    learning. In J. Leather & A. James (Eds) New Sounds 97, Proceedings of the
    Third International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second-Language Speech
    (Klagenfurt, Austria, University of Klagenfurt), Pp. 79-89.

  • Hillenbrand, J., & Flege, J. (1992). Application of acoustic techniques to the
    assessment of speech disorders. In Assessment of Speech and Voice
    Production: Research and Clinical Applications. NIDCD Monograph. National
    Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Pp. 53-62.

  • Bohn, O., Flege, J., Dagenais, P., & Fletcher, S. (1991). Effects of bite-block
    and loud speech on tongue heights in the production of German vowels. In
    Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Volume
    3, 70-73.

  • Flege, J. (1990). The production of English vowels by Dutch talkers: More
    evidence for the "new" vs. "similar" distinction". In J. Leather & A. James (Eds.)
    New Sounds 90, Proceedings of the Amsterdam Symposium on Second-
    Language Speech, (Department of English, University of Amsterdam), Pp. 255-
    293.

  • Bohn, O.-S. &  Flege, J. (1990). Perception and production of a new vowel
    category by second-language learners. In J. Leather &  A. James (Eds) New
    Sounds 90, Proceedings of the Amsterdam Symposium on Second-Language
    Speech (Department of English, University of Amsterdam), Pp. 255-293. Bohn

  • Flege, J. (1984). The detection of foreign accentedness. In A. Cohen & M. van
    den Broecke (Eds) Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Phonetic
    Sciences (Dordrecht, Foris), Pp. 677-681.

  • Flege, J. (1982). English speakers learn to suppress final stop devoicing, In R.
    Chametzky, R. Hirzel & K. Tuite (Eds) Papers from the 18th Regional Meeting
    (Chicago, Chicago Linguistic Society), Pp. 111-122.

  • Flege, J., Brown, W., Jr., & White, K. (1982). Voicing control in child speech, In
    T. Kastor-Bennett (Ed) Mid-America Linguistics Conference Proceedings
    (Wichita State University,  Dept. of English), Pp. 11-31.

  • Flege, J. & Hammond, R. (1981). Speakers' awareness of some non-
    segmental phonetic aspects of foreign accent. In M. Henderson (Ed) 1980 Mid-
    America Linguistics Conference Papers (U. of Kansas, Dept. of English), Pp.
    145-163.

  • Flege, J. (1980). Temporal correlates of [voice] in Arabic-accented English. In
    J. Wolf & D. Klatt (Eds) Speech Communication Papers Presented at the 97th
    Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (New York, Acoust. Society of
    America), Pp. 171-175.