Learning second language suprasegmentals: Effect of L2 experience on prosody and fluency characteristics of L2 speech

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-30

  Trofimovich, Pavel ^a   Baker, Wendy ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33644878855     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263106060013     Document Type: Article

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