Journal of Second Language Pronunciation

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ORCiD logo with linkDustin Crowther | University of Hawaiʻi | JournalSLP at gmail.com
Review Editor
ORCiD logo with linkJoshua Gordon | University of Northern Iowa

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The Journal of Second Language Pronunciation is a scholarly journal devoted to research into the acquisition, perception, production, teaching, assessment, and description of prosodic and segmental pronunciation of second languages (L2) in all contexts of learning. The journal encourages research that connects theory and practice, enhances our understanding of L2 phonological learning processes, and provides connections between L2 pronunciation and other areas of applied linguistics such as pragmatics, speech perception, and technology-enhanced language learning.

The Journal publishes full-length empirical studies and brief reports of experimental, instructed, and naturalistic research about L2 pronunciation, as well as review articles that synthesize research perspectives of key pronunciation issues from different disciplines. We additionally publish (a) teaching-oriented papers detailing successful practices and research-based instruction and (b) invited reviews of technology and books focused on L2 pronunciation.

Contributions focusing on empirical research will represent all portions of the methodological spectrum including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches. The journal invites papers on topics such as intelligibility and comprehensibility, accent, phonological acquisition, the use of technology (such as automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, and CAPT), spoken language assessment, the social impact of L2 pronunciation, the ethics of pronunciation teaching, pronunciation acquisition in less commonly taught languages, speech perception and its relationship to speech production, and other topics.

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ISSN: 2215-1931 | E-ISSN: 2215‑194X
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Latest articles

13 March 2026

  • Fluency assessment: Incorporating syntactic distance in a new measure of pause location
    Sylvain Coulange & Nivja H. de Jong

    • 10 March 2026

  • Editorial
    JSLP 12:1 (2026) pp. 1–3

    • 26 February 2026

  • Exploring the role of segmental accuracy in the intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign-accentedness of Spanish-accented English
    Mateusz Pietraszek | JSLP 12:1 (2026) p. 84
  • Teaching perspectives: Portuguese
    William Gottardi

    • 23 February 2026

  • Pronounce
    Reviewed by Benjamin Godard

    • 17 February 2026

  • Examining the relationship between speech rhythm, fluency measures and comprehensibility ratings in L2 English speech
    Katherine Fraser, Joan C. Mora & Mireia Ortega

    • 9 February 2026

  • Enhancing pronunciation training with artificial intelligence: Evaluating the BoldVoice application
    Emma Hayter

    • 5 February 2026

  • Sound communities: A quantitative proposal for studying bilingual speech
    Charlie Nagle, Melissa M. Baese-Berk, Mark Amengual & Joseph V. Casillas | JSLP 12:1 (2026) p. 4

    • 3 February 2026

  • Teaching perspectives: Italian
    Tania Ferronato & Domenica Diraviam

    • 15 January 2026

  • The effects of orthography and cognate status on L2 German pronunciation
    Sinem Sonsaat-Hegelheimer, John M. Levis & Caglar Yildirim | JSLP 12:1 (2026) pp. 58–83
  • A collaborative journey in pronunciation: Lessons from a community-engaged accent bias project
    Cesar Teló, Ryuichi Suzuki, Lin Lu, Gento Okawa, Tahiyyah Ahmed, Zineb Balmouddane, Mayra Carvajal, Karolyn Chen, Mahdieh (Mah) Fallahnejad, Byunghak Kim, Annika Kovacs, Sawri Madkaikar, Lia Mejía, Alet Odal, Thi Thuy Dung Pham, Yung Flora See, Mary O’Brien & Pavel Trofimovich | JSLP 12:1 (2026) pp. 114–130

    • 18 December 2025

  • Minimal effects of L2 phonetic training on non‑naïve learners’ perception of cross‑linguistic similarity: Minimal effects of training on perceived similarity
    Juli Cebrian, Angélica Carlet, Núria Gavaldà & Celia Gorba | JSLP 12:1 (2026) pp. 131–145

    • 1 December 2025

  • JSLP at PSLLT
    JSLP 11:3 (2025) pp. 309–311

    • 4 November 2025

  • E. Yamada, A. Przewozny, J. M. Fournier & N. Ballier (Eds.). 2023. New perspectives on English word stress
    Reviewed by Hong Li & Jingna Li | JSLP 12:1 (2026) pp. 151–155

    • 3 November 2025

  • Hul’q’umi’num’ listening quizzes: Speech perception in a language revitalization classroom context
    Maida Percival, H. Henny Yeung, Sonya Bird & Quaysultunaat (Randeana) Jack | JSLP 11:3 (2025) pp. 363–393

    • 13 October 2025

  • M. Amengual (Ed.). 2024. The Cambridge handbook of bilingual phonetics and phonology
    Reviewed by Arkadiusz Rojczyk | JSLP 12:1 (2026) pp. 146–150

    • 10 October 2025

  • The realization of Spanish /b d ɡ/ by Czech LX speakers
    Radek Skarnitzl & Petr Čermák | JSLP 12:1 (2026) pp. 33–57

    • 6 October 2025

  • Second language pronunciation & increased dissemination
    JSLP 11:2 (2025) pp. 145–147

    • 15 September 2025

  • Explicit pronunciation instruction in the second language classroom: An acoustic and impressionistic analysis of German fricatives
    James M. Stratton | JSLP 11:3 (2025) pp. 338–362

    • 1 September 2025

  • Age still matters after early adulthood
    Murray J. Munro, Tracey M. Derwing & Charlie Nagle | JSLP 11:3 (2025) pp. 423–447

    • 18 August 2025

  • The intelligibility and comprehensibility of French-accented English in an academic context: From isolated words to speech comprehension
    Victoria O’Callaghan, Anne Przewozny-Desriaux & Julie Lemarié | JSLP 11:2 (2025) pp. 267–293
  • The effect of oral repetition during discrimination training on L2 perceptual learning
    Ruri Ueda | JSLP 11:3 (2025) pp. 312–337

    • 17 July 2025

  • Zsuzsanna Bárkányi, M. Mar Galindo Merino & Aarón Pérez-Bernabeu (Eds.). 2024. La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE
    Reviewed by Mireia Ortega | JSLP 11:3 (2025) pp. 453–457

    • 7 July 2025

  • Assessing the efficacy of word error rate as a proxy for pronunciation quality: A comparative study of ASR systems and human evaluations among young EFL learners
    Yongkook Won | JSLP 11:3 (2025) pp. 394–422

    • 19 June 2025

  • A new decade: JSLP looking to the future
    Dustin Crowther | JSLP 11:1 (2025) pp. 1–3

    • 12 June 2025

  • A comparison of techniques for training L2 Japanese prosody
    Masako Shimada | JSLP 11:2 (2025) pp. 148–173

    • 10 June 2025

  • Production of American English consonants /v/ and /w/ by Hindi speakers of English
    Vikas Grover, Valerie L. Shafer, Luca Campanelli, D. H. Whalen, Stephanie Kakadelis & Erika S. Levy | JSLP 11:2 (2025) pp. 174–212

    • 3 June 2025

  • Teaching perspectives: Mandarin
    Christina Smith | JSLP 11:2 (2025) pp. 303–307

    • 2 June 2025

  • Exploring large language models for L2 metaphonological awareness tutoring
    Kacper Łodzikowski, Jarosław Weckwerth & Kamil Malarski | JSLP 11:1 (2025) pp. 46–75

    • 19 May 2025

  • Charlie Nagle. 2025. A Guide to Quantitative Research Methods in Second Language Pronunciation
    Reviewed by Daniel R. Isbell | JSLP 11:3 (2025) pp. 448–452

    • 13 May 2025

  • Linguistic dimensions of comprehensibility and perceived fluency in L2 speech across tasks of varying complexity
    Jialiang Lu & Reiko Sato | JSLP 11:2 (2025) pp. 240–266

    • 29 April 2025

  • Spanish rhotic acquisition in semester-long study-abroad and at-home contexts
    Jeff Michno & Lauren Orfinik | JSLP 11:1 (2025) pp. 103–130

    • 15 April 2025

  • English pronunciation through acting exercises and techniques
    Luke Nicholson | JSLP 11:2 (2025) pp. 294–298

    • 1 April 2025

  • Exploring automatic speech recognition for corrective and confirmative pronunciation feedback
    Paul John, Carol Johnson & Walcir Cardoso | JSLP 11:2 (2025) pp. 213–239

    • 27 March 2025

  • Teaching perspectives: Arabic
    Yasmine Sedeek | JSLP 11:2 (2025) pp. 299–302

    • 4 March 2025

  • Key issues in L2 pronunciation research: A look back at 10 years of JSLP
    John M. Levis | JSLP 10:3 (2024) pp. 293–308

    • 27 February 2025

  • Artificial intelligence integration in three iOS pronunciation apps: ELSA Speak, Loora, and Vocal Image
    DJ Kaiser | JSLP 10:3 (2024) pp. 404–426

    • 25 February 2025

  • The impact of generative AI-powered chatbots on L2 comprehensibility
    Sinem Sonsaat-Hegelheimer & Şebnem Kurt | JSLP 10:3 (2024) pp. 339–374

    • 24 February 2025

  • Implicit feedback and lexical stress: Development of perception and production in a classroom environment
    Özgür Parlak, Nicole Ziegler & Reem Rabea | JSLP 11:1 (2025) p. 76
  • Teaching Perspectives: Arabic
    Ayman S. Elbarbary | JSLP 11:1 (2025) pp. 135–139

    • 17 February 2025

  • Teaching Perspectives: Chinese
    Yunwen Su | JSLP 11:1 (2025) pp. 140–143

    • 3 February 2025

  • Training of English prosody with acoustically modified voices
    Radek Skarnitzl & Tomáš Bořil | JSLP 10:3 (2024) pp. 375–403

    • 24 January 2025

  • Effects of observing pitch gestures on the perception of English intonation by Japanese learners of English
    Tomoko Hori, Mari Akatsuka & Michiko Toyama | JSLP 11:1 (2025) pp. 26–45

    • 14 January 2025

  • Exploring the potential of textually‑enhanced captioned video to direct learners’ attention to challenging sound contrasts
    Jonás Fouz-González & Joan C. Mora | JSLP 10:3 (2024) pp. 309–338

    • 3 December 2024

  • Shannon McCrocklin (ed). 2022. Technological Resources for Second Language Pronunciation Learning and Teaching: Research-based Approaches
    Reviewed by Beata Walesiak | JSLP 10:3 (2024) pp. 427–430

    • 28 November 2024

  • Darren LaScotte, Colleen Meyers & Elaine Tarone. 2023. Voice and mirroring in L2 pronunciation instruction
    Reviewed by Jennifer A Foote | JSLP 11:1 (2025) pp. 131–134

    • 22 November 2024

  • Production of prominence by Mandarin‑speaking EFL learners: The role of prominence position, focus type and proficiency
    Congchao Hua | JSLP 11:1 (2025) p. 4

    • 21 November 2024

  • Subtraction: Another way to look at priorities in pronunciation teaching and learning
    John M. Levis | JSLP 10:2 (2024) pp. 143–153
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    ORCiD logo with linkDustin Crowther | University of Hawaiʻi | JournalSLP at gmail.com
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    ORCiD logo with linkJoshua Gordon | University of Northern Iowa
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    Michael Carey | University of the Sunshine Coast
    ORCiD logo with linkJuli Cebrian | Autonomous University of Barcelona
    ORCiD logo with linkTracey M. Derwing | University of Alberta & Simon Fraser University
    ORCiD logo with linkJonás Fouz-González | University of Murcia
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    ORCiD logo with linkCharlie Nagle | University of Texas Austin
    ORCiD logo with linkMary Grantham O’Brien | University of Calgary
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    ORCiD logo with linkChunsheng Yang | University of Connecticut
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    Linguistic dimensions of comprehensibility and perceived fluency in L2 speech across tasks of varying complexity. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 11 (2), 240–266. DOI logo
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