The Acquisition of Dialectal Phonemes in a Study Abroad Context: The Case of the Castilian Theta

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 512-542

  Knouse, Stephanie M ^a  

^a FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialectal phonemes; L2 variation; Pronunciation; Spanish; Study abroad

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873111608     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2013.12003.x     Document Type: Article

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