Relative salience of suprasegmental features on judgments of L2 comprehensibility and accentedness

System

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 301-315

  Kang, Okim ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accentedness; Comprehensibility; International teaching assistants; Suprasegmentals

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953540175     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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