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Tomas, Ekaterina; van de Vijver, Ruben; Demuth, Katherine; Petocz, Peter – First Language, 2017
Morphophonological alternations can make target-like production of grammatical morphemes challenging due to changes in form depending on the phonological environment. This article explores the acquisition of morphophonological alternations involving the interacting patterns of vowel deletion and stress shift in Russian-speaking children (aged…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes
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Banzina, Elina; Dilley, Laura C.; Hewitt, Lynne E. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The importance of secondary-stressed (SS) and unstressed-unreduced (UU) syllable accuracy for spoken word recognition in English is as yet unclear. An acoustic study first investigated Russian learners' of English production of SS and UU syllables. Significant vowel quality and duration reductions in Russian-spoken SS and UU vowels were found,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Suprasegmentals, Syllables