High variability identification and discrimination training for Japanese speakers learning English /r/-/l/

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  • Yasuaki Shinohara
  • Paul Iverson
چکیده

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.11.002 0095-4470/ 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). q A portion of this work was presented in “Perceptual training effects on production of English /r/–/l/ by Japanese speakers” at the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, London, UK, 8–10 August 2013. * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (Y. Shinohara). Yasuaki Shinohara *, Paul Iverson b

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Phonetics

دوره 66  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2018