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Publication details [#44966]

Flege, James E., Ian Mackay and Satomi Imai. 2006. Evaluating the effects of chronological age and sentence duration on degree of perceived foreign accent. Applied Psycholinguistics 27 (2) : 157–183.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | age | perception1 | second language acquisition | sentence

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study of native Italian immigrants to Canada's English second language foreign accent argues that age of arrival influence on foreign accent has to be ascribed to the development of the native language phonetic system rather than to maturational restrictions on second language speech acquisition.