The production of English vowels by fluent early and late Italian-English bilinguals

Phonetica

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-71

  Piske, Thorsten ^c   Flege, James Emil ^a   MacKay, Ian R A ^d   Meador, Diane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Speech and Lang Sci Res Lab   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0036366953     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000056205     Document Type: Article

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