Second-Language Speech
Subtitle: Structure and Process (Studies on Language Acquisition, 13) (Studies on Language Acquisition, 13)
Contributors: Allan James (Editor); Jonathan Leather (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9783110141269
Subjects: Bilingualism & multilingualism; Language acquisition; Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Grammar; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Second Language Acquisition; Linguistics; Grammar, Comparative and gener; Grammar, Comparative and general; Phonology
First sentence: Most adults who learn a foreign language speak it with a discernible foreign accent (see e.g. Tahta-Wood-Loewenthal 1981; Flege 1988a).