Falling on sensitive ears? The influence of musical ability on extreme raters' judgments of L2 pronunciation

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 375-386

  Isaacs, Talia ^a   Trofimovich, Pavel ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

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EID: 77955138876     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5054/tq.2010.222214     Document Type: Article

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