Short research note: The beginning Spanish Lexicon: A web-based interface to calculate phonological similarity among Spanish words in adults learning Spanish as a foreign language

Second Language Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-112

  Vitevitch, Michael S ^a   Stamer, Melissa K ^a   Kieweg, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

foreign language learner; neighborhood density; on line database; Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855368246     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658311432199     Document Type: Article

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