British ‘Bollocks’ versus American ‘Jerk’: Do native British English speakers swear more – or differently – compared to American English speakers?
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Study of acoustic correlates of English lexical stress produced by native (L1) bengali speakers compared to native (L1) English speakers
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Linguistics Review
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1868-6303,1868-6311
DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2015-0015