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ACQUIRING A NON-NATIVE PHONOLOGY: LINGUISTIC CONSTRAINTS AND SOCIAL BARRIERS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2008

Debra M. Hardison
Debra M. Hardison
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Michigan State University
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ACQUIRING A NON-NATIVE PHONOLOGY: LINGUISTIC CONSTRAINTS AND SOCIAL BARRIERS.Jette G. Hansen. New York: Continuum, 2006. Pp. 197. $160.00 cloth.

Hansen's monograph concerns the phonological development of two Vietnamese adults acquiring English as a second language (L2). Data collection began 1 year after the couple's immigration to the United States and continued for a period of 1 year. The focus was on the developmental sequences involved in the acquisition of English syllable-initial and syllable-final consonant singletons and clusters, which are challenges to many L2 learners. In Vietnamese, syllable-final phones are limited to plosives, nasals, and semivowels; there are no consonant clusters.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 110 - 111
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© 2008 Cambridge University Press

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