The effect of teaching English phonotactics on the lexical segmentation of English as a foreign language

System

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 94-106

  Al jasser, Faisal ^a,b  

^a QASSIM UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Lexical segmentation; Listening comprehension; Phonotactics

Indexed keywords

EID: 39849101469     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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