Perceived phonetic dissimilarity and L2 speech learning: The case of Japanese /r/ and English /l/ and /r/

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 233-250

  Aoyama, Katsura ^a   Flege, James Emil ^b   Guion, Susan G ^c   Akahane Yamada, Reiko ^d   Yamada, Tsuneo ^e  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MULTIMEDIA EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

1 , r ; English; Japanese; Perception; Phonetic dissimilarity; Production; Second language; Speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942750456     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4470(03)00036-6     Document Type: Article

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