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Peer reviewedPiper, Terry – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
Results of a study of sound system acquisition of five-year-old students of English-as-a-second-language show that first- and second-language learners exhibit similar but not identical simplification processes, and that evidence for a common developmental sequence in acquisition of consonant sounds was limited. (MSE)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedFokes, Joann; And Others – Language and Speech, 1985
Describes an investigation of the phonetic characteristics of children's second language acquisition, focusing on acoustical correlates of the voicing contrast for stop consonants, as produced by young native speakers of Arabic who were learning English as a second language. Neither age nor experience with English could predict phonetic…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Arabic, Arabs, Child Language
