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Lee, Albert; Mok, Peggy – Second Language Research, 2018
This article explores the acquisition of Japanese vowel and consonant quantity contrasts by Cantonese learners. Our goal is to examine whether transfer from first language (L1) is possible when L1 experience is phonemic but restricted to a small set of sounds (short vs. long vowels) and when the experience is non-phonemic, derived only at morpheme…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Sino Tibetan Languages