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International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Vol. 9:1 (2022) ► pp.143–154
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Chunsheng Yang (ed.). The Acquisition of Chinese as a Second Language Pronunciation: Segments and Prosody. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021. 328 pp. ISBN 9789811538087 (hardcover) / 9789811538094 (ebook) https://​doi​.org​/10​.1007​/978​-981​-15​-3809​-4

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| The Chinese University of Hong Kong
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Article outline
  • Part I.Segments and tones
  • Part II.Prosody
  • Part III.Intelligibility, comprehensibility, accentedness, and fluency
  • References
Published online: 7 June 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.22007.che
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