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Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6] 2019
► pp. 888–894
commentary

What do prosodic accounts add to the research on L2 articles?

| University of York
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Are prosodic properties of the L1 the source of article omissions in L2 English?
  • 3.Do prosodic properties of the L1 contribute to article omissions in L2 English?
  • 4.Do prosodic properties of the L1 contribute to article mispronunciation?
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 17 October 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.19079.tre
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