A cross-varietal comparison of deaccenting and given information: Implications for international intelligibility and pronoundation teaching

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 739-761

  Low, Ee Ling ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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EID: 33846233440     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/40264306     Document Type: Article

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