Lexical and statistical evidence in the acquisition of second language phonemes

Second Language Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-94

  Hayes Harb, Rachel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Department of Linguistics ^*  (United States)

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EID: 33847621221     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658307071601     Document Type: Article

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