English ambisyllabic consonants and half-closed syllables in language teaching

Language Learning

Volumn 49, Issue PART 1, 1999, Pages 311-356

  Trammell, Robert L ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/0023-8333.49.s1.9     Document Type: Article

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