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Lee, Shinsook, Joh, Jeongsoon, Lim, Injae, & Ko, Hyunsook. 2011. The Production of English Sounds by Early Learners with Different English Learning Experience. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 36-1, 215-241. This study investigated the production of English stop and fricative sounds by conducting on-line experiments on three groups of Korean children with different English-learning experience. More specifically, to examine the effect of different L2 experience on L2 sound production, 23 Korean EFL children, 21 bilingual returnees, and 19 ESL children produced 32 English nonce words. Their average age was 9.3. Nonce words consisted of 8 stops and 24 voiceless fricatives beginning with either the alveolar stop /t/ or /d/ (e.g., tilwerk, tolmick, dilwerk, dolmick) or one of the fricatives /f/, /ɵ/, /s/, and /š/ (e.g., findert ,thindert, simbert, shipkin; farbin ,tharbin, soltem, sholtem). The results showed that the learners’ different English-learning experience had an impact on the production of English sounds, as the ESL children outperformed the bilingual returnees, who in turn outperformed the EFL children. Moreover, the results indicated that target sounds’ manners and places of articulation and the following vowel contexts influenced the production of English consonants by the children. Further, different patterns of substitution were obtained depending on the children’s different L2 experience. L1 interference and markedness were also shown to play a role in the production of L2 sounds. The role of perception in L2 production and its implications for L2 production were also discussed. (Korea University, Konkuk University & Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation)