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Direct linkHarada, Tetsuo – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
This study acoustically analyzed the production of single and geminate stops in Japanese by English-speaking children (N = 19) at three different grade levels in a Japanese immersion program. Results show that both their singletons and geminates were significantly longer than those of Japanese monolinguals and the bilinguals' immersion teachers,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Japanese, Immersion Programs, English
