A Pilot Study of the Achievement of English Pronunciation Of Mandarin Speakers: Children vs. Teenagers

There are two purposes of this pilot study. The first one was to find out if there is a "Critical Period" (CP) for acquiring native or native-like pronunciation of L2 through investigating the English pronunciation of ESL children and teenagers whose first language is Mandarin. Although th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuo, Yihsiang
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/1808/347