The effects of speaking rate on listener evaluations of native and foreign-accented speech

Language Learning

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-182

  Munro, Murray J ^a   Derwing, Tracey M ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032384657     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9922.00038     Document Type: Article

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