THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH SYLLABLE TIMING BY NATIVE SPANISH SPEAKERS LEARNERS OF ENGLISH. AN EMPIRICAL STUDY'

In this article we present part of the results of an empirical research on contrastive rhythm (English-Spanish). Of the several points dealt with in such a research (syllable compression, foot timing, syllable timing and isochrony of rhythmic units), we refer here to syllable duration in English and...

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Main Author: Francisco Gutierrez Diez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Murcia 2001-06-01
Series:International Journal of English Studies (IJES)
Subjects:
SLA
Online Access:http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/47631