Computer-based training for learning English vowel contrasts

System

Volumn 32, Issue 4 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 539-552

  Wang, Xinchun ^a   Munro, Murray J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer assisted language learning; Pronunciation; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 10144245929     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2004.09.011     Document Type: Article

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