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Phonological feature re-assembly and the importance of phonetic cues

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Volume 25, Issue 2
https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658308100284

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It is argued that new phonological features can be acquired in second languages, but that both feature acquisition and feature re-assembly are affected by the robustness of phonetic cues in the input.

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Volume 25, Issue 2
Pages: 231 - 233
Article first published online: April 1, 2009
Issue published: April 2009

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  1. L2 phonology
  2. feature re-assembly
  3. phonetic cues

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John Archibald
University of Calgary, [email protected]
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