The effect of training on the discrimination of English vowels

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages

  Cenoz, Jasone ^a   Lecumberri, Luisa Garcie ^a  

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EID: 33750097100     PISSN: 0019042X     EISSN: 16134141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/iral.1999.37.4.261     Document Type: Article

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