Listen-and-repeat training of non-native vowel quality: Preliminary findings from speakers of Namibian languages.
This study investigated how listen-and-repeat training affects the production of non-native (Swedish) vowels /y/ and /ʉ/ by speakers of different Namibian languages. Seventeen speakers, who did not have /y/ or /ʉ/ categories in their L1, participated in the experiment. Training effects were measured...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS) Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 79 - 102 |
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University of Toronto Press
2024
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