Review published In: International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Vol. 9:1 (2022) ► pp.143–154
Book review
. The Acquisition of Chinese as a Second Language Pronunciation: Segments and Prosody. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021. 328 pp. ISBN 9789811538087 (hardcover) / 9789811538094 (ebook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3809-4
Published online: 7 June 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.22007.che
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.22007.che
Article outline
- Part I.Segments and tones
- Part II.Prosody
- Part III.Intelligibility, comprehensibility, accentedness, and fluency
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