Learning prosody and fluency characteristics of second language speech: The effect of experience on child learners' acquisition of five suprasegmentals

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 251-276

  Trofimovich, Pavel ^a   Baker, Wendy ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33947357102     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0142716407070130     Document Type: Article

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