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Direct linkFlege, James Emil; MacKay, Ian R. A. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004
This study examines the perception of English vowels by native speakers of Italian. In two preliminary experiments, Italian university students who had lived in Canada for 3 months were found to have difficulty discriminating because they often identified both members of each contrast as instances of a single Italian vowel. The participants in two…
Descriptors: Vowels, Second Language Learning, Italian, Native Speakers
