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The American Accent in French
Author(s) -
Myron Herbert B.
Publication year - 1945
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1945.tb03355.x
Subject(s) - stress (linguistics) , conversation , linguistics , phonetics , psychology , history , sociology , philosophy
Author's Summary— This is a brief account of the ways of eradicating the American accent in French. Realizing that the average student in a conversation course has little time or talent for either phonetics or phonemics, an attempt is made here to “trouble shoot” the worst of his bad accent.