The Mixed Effects of Phonetic Input Variability on Relative Ease of L2 Learning: Evidence from English Learners’ Production of French and Spanish Stop-Rhotic Clusters
We examined the consequences of within-category phonetic variability in the input on non-native learners’ production accuracy. Following previous empirical research on the L2 acquisition of phonetics and the lexicon, we tested the hypothesis that phonetic variability facilitates learning by analyzin...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Languages |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/3/2/12 |