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Direct linkYlinen, Sari; Shestakova, Anna; Alku, Paavo; Huotilainen, Minna – Language and Speech, 2005
Some languages, such as Finnish, use speech-sound duration as the primary cue for a phonological quantity distinction. For second-language (L2) learners, quantity is often difficult to master if speech-sound duration plays a less important role in the phonology of their native language (L1). By comparing the categorization performance of native…
Descriptors: Finno Ugric Languages, Perception, Phonology, Phonemes
