Speaking my languages

Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech

March 30, 2019

Why some Asian accents swap Ls and Rs in English

Why some Asian accents swap Ls and Rs in English is an excellent YouTube video created by Vox that has been uploaded this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yzMUs3badc It has already had over 1 million views and 49K likes. At 2:40, they quote our speech acquisition norms: (McLeod & Crowe, 2018).

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