Acoustic analysis of the production of unstressed english vowels by early and late Korean and Japanese bilinguals

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 487-513

  Lee, Borim ^a   Guion, Susan G ^b   Harada, Tetsuo ^c  

^a Wonkwang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 33749071564     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263106060207     Document Type: Article

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