Learners' ethnic group affiliation and L2 pronunciation accuracy: A sociolinguistic investigation

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 489-511

  Gatbonton, Elizabeth ^a   Trofimovich, Pavel ^a   Magid, Michael ^a  

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

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EID: 33644923664     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3588491     Document Type: Article

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