A one-year longitudinal study of English and Japanese vowel production by Japanese adults and children in an English-speaking setting

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 156-167

  Oh, Grace E ^a   Guion Anderson, Susan ^a   Aoyama, Katsura ^b   Flege, James E ^c   Akahane Yamada, Reiko ^d   Yamada, Tsuneo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories ^*  (Italy)

^d ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MULTIMEDIA EDUCATION   (Japan)

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EID: 79953222551     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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