L2 stress perception: The reliance on different acoustic cues

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 635-638

  Wang, Qian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CUES; PHONOLOGICAL LEVELS; SECOND LANGUAGE; SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS; STRESS PERCEPTION;

EID: 67650577787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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