Competing Constraints on Variation in the Speech of Adult Chinese Learners of English

Bayley, Robert

doi:10.1075/sibil.10.05bay

In:Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation
Edited by Robert Bayley and Dennis R. Preston
[Studies in Bilingualism 10] 1996
► pp. 97–120

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Competing Constraints on Variation in the Speech of Adult Chinese Learners of English

Robert Bayley

Published online: 4 October 1996

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