Learning Foreign Vowels

Language and Speech

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 295-348

  Kingston, John ^a  

^a University of Massachuset

Author keywords

exemplars; features; German; learning; vowels

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346390542     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309030460020201     Document Type: Article

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