A Study of the Effect of Age in the Pronunciation of English Vowels by Spanish Speakers

This pilot study examines the role of age in the acquisition of English vowels by six native speakers of Spanish. The speech of three ESL adults and three ESL children were tape recorded and analyzed by 7 judges and the software Multi-Speech. Their speech was analyzed phonologically by using a spect...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quesada, Allen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1998-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/350