The use of prosodic cues in learning new words in an unfamiliar language

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 415-444

  Kim, Sahyang ^a   Broersma, Mirjam ^b   Cho, Taehong ^c  

^a Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84862794355     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263112000137     Document Type: Article

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