Introduction -- I Second-language speech: processes and strategies -- English vowel production by Dutch talkers: more evidence for the "similar" vs "new" distinction -- Perception and production of a new vowel category by adult second language learners -- Interrelation of perceptual and productive learning in the initial acquisition of second-language tone -- Effect of word familiarity on non-native phoneme perception: identification of English /r/, /l/ and /w/ by native speakers of Japanese -- Perceptual foreign accent: L2 users' comprehension ability -- Native speaker reactions to non-native speech -- II Second-language speech: conditions and constraints -- L2 acquisition, L1 loss, and the critical period hypothesis -- Conditions on transfer in phonology -- On the non-acquisition of an English sound pattern -- Interlanguage and postlexical transfer -- On the acquisition of tonal and accentual features of English by Austrian learners -- Austrian learners' development of phonological representations for English -- III Second-language speech: structure and system -- Phonological processes vs morphonological rules in L1 and L2 acquisition -- The device "phonological rule" and the acquisition of (inter)phonology -- Minimal segments in second language phonology -- A parameter-setting model for second-language phonological acquisition? -- Towards a typology of bilingual phonological systems -- List of contributors -- Index.