The acquisition of variation in second-language Spanish: An agenda for integrating studies of the L2 sound system

Journal of Applied Linguistics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-157

  Geeslin, Kimberly L ^a   Gudmestad, Aarnes ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialects; Phonetics; Second language acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Spanish; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858779169     PISSN: 14797887     EISSN: 17431743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/japl.v5i2.137     Document Type: Article

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