This volume offers a definitive source for understanding social influences in L2 pronunciation, demonstrating the importance of empirical findings from a number of research perspectives, and outlining the directions that future work can take. The aim is to present a coherent argument for the significance of social factors and how they contribute to phonological acquisition.

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Introduction; Part I: The Nature of Accent; 1 The Social Nature of L2 Pronunciation; 2 Acoustic-Phonetic Parameters in the Perception of Accent; 3 Developmental Sequences and Constraints in Second Language Phonological Acquisition: Balancing Language-internal and Languageexternal Factors; 4 Suprasegmental Measures of Accentedness; Part II: The Learner's Approach to Pronunciation in Social Context; 5 Understanding the Impact of Social Factors on L2 Pronunciation: Insights from Learners; 6 L2 Accent Choices and Language Contact; 7 Accentedness, "Passing" and Crossing. Part III: The Teacher's Approach to Accent8 Problematizing the Dependence on L1 Norms in Pronunciation Teaching Attitudes toward Second-language Accents; 9 Phonological Literacy in L2 Learning and Teacher Training; 10 Training Native Speakers to Listen to L2 Speech; Part IV: The Social Impact of Accent; 11 Listener Expectations, Reverse Linguistic Stereotyping, and Individual Background Factors in Social Judgments and Oral Performance Assessment; 12 Accent and 'Othering' in the Workplace; Part V: Conclusions; 13 Future Directions in the Research and Teaching of L2 Pronunciation; Subject index