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Peer reviewedTeixeira, Elizabeth Reis; Davis, Barbara L. – Language and Speech, 2002
Compares sound patterns in the speech of two Brazilian-Portuguese speaking children with early production patterns in English-learning children as well as English and Brazilian-Portuguese characteristics. Results emphasize the primacy of production system effects in early acquisition, although even the earliest word forms show evidence of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Phonology
Peer reviewedWenk, B. J. – Language and Speech, 1985
A descriptive model elaborated to account for the rhythmic organization of French and English is applied to the speech of French learners of English to identify the particular type of cross-linguistic influence operating therein. Evidence is presented for the existence of transitional rhythmic groups, perceived in the interlanguage vowel reduction…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, English (Second Language), French, Interference (Language)
