Relative difficulty in the L2 acquisition of the Spanish dorsal fricative

Research on relative difficulty in L2 production has revealed that learners target the most salient parameter when acquiring new sounds (Colantoni & Steele, 2008). For example, L1 English-L2 French learners acquire the more salient fricative manner of the French /ʁ/ before the voicing and durati...

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Main Author: Matthew Patience
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: White Rose University Press 2018-08-01
Series:Journal of the European Second Language Association
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Online Access:https://www.euroslajournal.org/articles/48