Vowel identification by monolingual and bilingual listeners: Use of spectral change and duration cues

Recent studies have shown that even highly-proficient Spanish-English bilinguals, who acquired their second language (L2) in childhood and have little or no foreign accent in English, may require more acoustic information than monolinguals in order to identify English vowels and may have more diffic...

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Main Author: Glasbrenner, Merete Møller
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2005
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2898
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3897&context=etd