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Peer reviewedFlege, James Emil; Munro, Murray J. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1994
Studied the word as a unit in second-language speech acquisition. Spanish and English monolinguals' renditions of "taco" differed systematically. Bilinguals' accuracy in producing the various segments of a second-language word may be interrelated. In judging second-language speech, listeners respond to phonetic errors distributed over the entire…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adult Students, Bilingualism, College Students
