CHANGES over TIME in GLOBAL FOREIGN ACCENT and LIQUID IDENTIFIABILITY and ACCURACY

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 213-243

  Riney, Timothy J ^a,b   Flege, James E ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

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EID: 52449112870     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263198002058     Document Type: Article

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