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Ma, Lin – 1994
A study investigated to what extent adult native speakers of Mandarin Chinese learning English as a second language could pronounce the five front vowels of American English, how difficult this was, and which vowels were most difficult. Subjects were 16 Chinese university students and spouses and 16 American students. All subjects were recorded…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adult Learning, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics