The effects of place of articulation and vowel height in the acquisition of English aspirated stops by Spanish speakers

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 251-263

  Yava, Mehmet ^a   Wildermuth, Renée ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI DADE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 33750712790     PISSN: 0019042X     EISSN: 16134141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IRAL.2006.011     Document Type: Article

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