The Acquisition of an Egyptian Phonological Variant by U.S. Students in Cairo

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 267-283

  Raish, Michael ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Gender; Heritage status; Sociolinguistic variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027931846     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/flan.12140     Document Type: Article

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