The role of 'educated native speakers' in providing language analysis for the determination of the origin of asylum seekers

International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 113-138

  Fraser, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accent identification; Asylum seekers; Lado; Language analysis; Perceptual dialectology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349729708     PISSN: 17488885     EISSN: 17488893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/ijsll.v16i1.113     Document Type: Article

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