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- Title
AGE CHANGES IN THE ABILITY TO REPLICATE FOREIGN PRONUNCIATION AND INTONATION.
- Authors
Tahta, Sonia; Wood, Margaret; Loewenthal, Kate
- Abstract
Looks at the abilities of five- to 15-year-old monolingual English schoolchildren to replicate foreign pronunciation and intonation. Finding that ability to replicate pronunciation declined fairly steadily over the whole age-range studied; Long-term studies of fluent L2 speakers in which younger ages of acquisition are associated with better chances of a native pronunciation and intonation.
- Subjects
DICTION; SPEECH; INTONATION (Phonetics); PHONETICS; LANGUAGE acquisition; FLUENCY (Language learning)
- Publication
Language & Speech, 1981, Vol 24, Issue 4, p363
- ISSN
0023-8309
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/002383098102400405