Negative Transfer From Spanish and English to Portuguese Pronunciation: The Roles of Inhibition and Working Memory

Language Learning

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 259-280

  Trude, Alison M ^a   Tokowicz, Natasha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Letter to sound correspondences; Negative transfer; Second language learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551615747     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00611.x     Document Type: Article

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