Language context elicits native-like stop voicing in early bilinguals' productions in both L1 and L2

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 640-653

  Antoniou, Mark ^a   Best, Catherine T ^a,b   Tyler, Michael D ^a   Kroos, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

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EID: 78649713141     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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