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Azzaro, Gabriele – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1990
Part one of this study discussed the characteristics of errors involving single fricative consonants made by English children learning their first language. Here, the second part discusses the distinctive features of the single fricatives most commonly mispronounced, as well as the characteristics of errors with clustered fricatives. (34…
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), English
Peer reviewedMunro, Murray J. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1995
Untrained native English listeners assigned foreign accent scores to sentence and narrative utterances produced by native English speakers and Mandarin-speaking learners of English, rendered unintelligible through low-pass filtering. Because the filtered speech stimuli contained little of what could be considered segmental information, results…
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Language Research
