EMPIRICAL STUDIES RELATED TO THE TEACHING OF FRENCH PRONUNCIATION TO AMERICAN STUDENTS / JOHN L. D. CLARK.

THIS REPORT DESCRIBES IN DETAIL FIVE RELATED EXPERIMENTS THAT WERE CONDUCTED IN AREAS PERTAINING TO THE TEACHING OF FRENCH PRONUNCIATION TO NATIVE SPEAKERS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH. THE FIRST TWO EXPERIMENTS SOUGHT TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE ACCEPTABILITY OF 38 ENGLISH PHONEMES TO NATIVE FRENCH LISTENERS...

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Main Authors: CLARK, JOHN L. D., Clark, John L. D.
Corporate Authors: Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Lab. for Research in Instruction, Harvard University. Laboratory for Research in Instruction
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Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1967.
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