Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential ...

Review text: "This volume contains exciting and potentially valuable new contributions that attempts to expand our understanding of the role of phonology and phonetics in speech perception.

This volume is the first attempt to provide a survey of interlanguage prosody research in L2 Italian.

The focus of this accessible new book is second language speech - that is, how speakers perceive, process, understand and pronounce the sounds of a second language.