Scrutinizing the role of length of residence and age of acquisition in the interlanguage pronunciation development of English/by late Japanese bilinguals

Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 847-863

  Saito, Kazuya ^a   Brajot, François Xavier ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

age effects; English; experience effects; late bilingualism; second language pronunciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881557870     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000703     Document Type: Article

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