Can orthography influence second language syllabic segmentation?. Japanese epenthetic vowels and French consonantal clusters

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-81

  Detey, Sylvain ^a   Nespoulous, Jean Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ TOULOUSE JEAN JAURÈS   (France)

Author keywords

French; Interphonology; Japanese; Orthography; Perception; Syllable

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348863790     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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