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TítuloCan Late EFL Learners Attain Nativelike Pronunciation? Evidence from Catalan Speakers’ Production of English Low Vowels

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Table  1.  Average  formant  frequencies  in  Hz  of  the  three  target  American  English  vowels  (Hillenbrand,  Getty,  Clark  and  Wheeler,  1995) and the closest Catalan vowels (Recasens, 1986)
Table  2.  Pronunciation  scores  obtained  by  the  24  Catalan  learners  of  English tested in the experiment
Table 3. Speech materials used in the experiment.
Table 4. Mean frequency values obtained from the vowel elicitation of  three groups of Catalan learners of English varying in experience with  the target language and a group of native AmEng controls
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