Suggested further reading
Derwing and Munro’s Putting Accent in Its Place: Rethinking Obstacles to Communication
(2009) provides an excellent overview of research on the sociolinguistic aspects of foreign
accent, along with an extensive bibliography.
Other articles that would supplement this chapter include:
Finegan, E. (2004) American English and its Distinctiveness. In E. Finegan and J. Rickford (eds.)
Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Siegel, R. (1999) Commentary: Foreign Accent May Be a Detriment to an Immigrant. In
transcript of All Things Considered, National Public Radio, October 26.
Tagliamonte, S. (2001) Come/Came Variation in English Dialects. American Speech. 76: 42–61.
Tan, A. (1990) Mother Tongue. The Threepenny Review. 43: 7–8.
Wolfram, W. and Schilling-Estes, N. (2006) Social and Ethnic Dialects. In American English:
Dialects and Variation. Oxford: Blackwell.