Acquisition of allophony from speech input by adult learners

Sound systems are a basic building block of any human language. An integral part of the acquisition of sound systems is the learning of allophony. In sound systems, some segments are used as allophones, or contextually-conditioned variants of a single phoneme, and learners need to figure out whether...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Noguchi, Masaki
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58108