A state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, this book presents revision of an influential model in the field, alongside proposed new methods, a progress review and new empirical data.

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.