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Publication details [#58189]

Schmid, Monika S. and Holger Hopp. 2013. Perceived foreign accent in first language attrition and second language acquisition: The impact of age of acquisition and bilingualism. Applied Psycholinguistics 34 (2) : 361–394.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | age | bilingual acquisition | pronunciation | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores constraints on ultimate second language pronunciation ability in a direct comparison of perceived foreign accent of late German L2 learners and German first language attriters. Language acquisition from birth appears not enough to warrant nativelike pronunciation, and late language acquisition does not unavoidably impede it.