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Publication details [#44283]

Chan, Alice Y.W. 2006. Strategies used by Cantonese speakers in pronouncing English initial consonant clusters: Insights into the interlanguage phonology of Cantonese ESL learners in Hong Kong. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 44 (4) : 331–355.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

consonant | interlanguage | L2-acquisition | pedagogy | pronunciation

Language as a subject

Cantonese | English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Annotation

This article examines the strategies employed by Cantonese English as a second language learners to resolve their difficulties in pronouncing English initial consonant clusters.