ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thankJanet Anderson-Hsieh for suggesting the four tasks for this study, Jim Flege
for the measurement of global foreign accent, Randy Thrasher and Yuki Takagi for
statistical help and insight, Kyoko Okamura for clerical assistance and proofreading,
and Theo Bongaerts and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions on
an earlier draft of this article.