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Overview

James Emil Flege is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Psychology, with a focus on areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Signal Processing, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Language and Linguistics.

Their work covers several main topics related to speech and language, including:

  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Flege's recent publications demonstrate ongoing contributions to the study of speech sounds and acoustics. Two notable papers include:

  • "Relationships Between Acoustic Characteristics and Intelligibility Scores: A Reanalysis of Japanese Speakers' Productions of American English Liquids," published in 2023 in Language and Speech.
  • "My great big problem with vowels," published in 2024 in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Ocke-Schwen Bohn
  • Katsura Aoyama
  • Ratree Wayland
  • Lingzi Hong
  • Reiko Akahane-Yamada

Among publication venues, their work has appeared multiple times in journals such as:

  • Language and Speech
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

In addition to journal articles, James Emil Flege is the author of a book titled Second Language Speech Learning, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. This publication has been cited extensively within its field.

Best Publications

  • Factors affecting strength of perceived foreign accent in a second language

    James Emil Flege;Murray J. Munro;Ian R. A. MacKay

  • The production of "new" and "similar" phones in a foreign language: evidence for the effect of equivalence classification

    James Emil Flege

  • Effects of experience on non-native speakers' production and perception of English vowels

    James Emil Flege;Ocke-Schwen Bohn;Sunyoung Jang

  • Age Constraints on Second-Language Acquisition

    James Emil Flege;James Emil Flege;Grace H. Yeni-Komshian;Grace H. Yeni-Komshian;Serena Liu;Serena Liu

  • Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in an L2: a review

    Thorsten Piske;Ian R. A. MacKay;James Emil Flege

  • Amount of native-language (L1) use affects the pronunciation of an L2

    J.E. Flege;E.M. Frieda;T. Nozawa

  • Interaction between the native and second language phonetic subsystems

    James E. Flege;Carlo Schirru;Ian R. A. MacKay

  • Native Italian speakers' perception and production of English vowels.

    James Emil Flege;Ian R. A. MacKay;Diane Meador

  • Perceived phonetic dissimilarity and L2 speech learning: the case of Japanese /r/ and English /l/ and /r/

    Katsura Aoyama;James Emil Flege;Susan G Guion;Reiko Akahane-Yamada

  • Limits on phonetic accuracy in foreign language speech production

    James Emil Flege;James Hillenbrand

  • Effects of age of second-language learning on the production of English consonants

    James Emil Flege;Murray J. Munro;Murray J. Munro;Ian R. A. MacKay

  • Age of learning affects the authenticity of voice‐onset time (VOT) in stop consonants produced in a second language

    James Emil Flege

  • The Production of New and Similar Vowels by Adult German Learners of English

    Ocke-Schwen Bohn;James Emil Flege

  • THE EFFECT OF EXPERIENCE ON ADULTS' ACQUISITION OF A SECOND LANGUAGE

    James Emil Flege;Serena Liu

  • An investigation of current models of second language speech perception: the case of Japanese adults' perception of English consonants.

    Susan G. Guion;James E. Flege;Reiko Akahane-Yamada;Jesica C. Pruitt

  • CROSS-LANGUAGE PHONETIC INTERFERENCE: ARABIC TO ENGLISH*

    James Emil Flege;Robert Port

  • The influence of L1 on the acquisition of Swedish quantity by native speakers of Spanish, English and Estonian

    Robert McAllister;James Emil Flege;Thorsten Piske

  • Factors affecting degree of perceived foreign accent in English sentences.

    James Emil Flege

  • Talker and listener effects on degree of perceived foreign accent.

    James Emil Flege;Kathryn L. Fletcher

  • The Revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r)

    James Emil Flege;Ocke-Schwen Bohn

  • Production and perception of English stops by native Spanish speakers

    James Emil Flege;Wieke Eefting

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray J. Munro
Murray J. Munro Simon Fraser University
Ellen Bialystok
Ellen Bialystok York University
Virginia A. Mann
Virginia A. Mann University of California, Irvine
Linda Polka
Linda Polka McGill University
LouAnn Gerken
LouAnn Gerken University of Arizona
Catherine T. Best
Catherine T. Best Haskins Laboratories
Sven L. Mattys
Sven L. Mattys University of York
Thierry Nazzi
Thierry Nazzi Université Paris Cité
Franck Ramus
Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University

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