Age of immersion as a predictor of foreign accent

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 311-341

  Munro, Miles ^a   Mann, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 23944461103     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716405050198     Document Type: Article

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