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Edwards, Jette G. Hansen – Language Learning, 2011
This study investigated second language (L2) learners' acquisition of English /t, d/ deletion patterns in word-final consonant clusters, (a) focusing on how constraints such as grammatical conditioning and phonological environment affect deletion of /t, d/ in L2 acquisition and (b) determining the extent to which these L2 learners had acquired…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Grammar, Conditioning, Mandarin Chinese
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Fourakis, Marios; Iverson, Gregory K. – Language Learning, 1985
Presents the results of an experiment which examined the temporal characteristics of voiceless plosives in American English, Arabic, and Arabic-accented English. Results showed that Arabic-accented English departed from the target language goal and constituted an articulation type characterizable as more Arabic than Arabic itself. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Arabic, Articulation (Speech), Consonants, English (Second Language)