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BEYOND SEGMENTS

Prosody in SLA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2014

Ineke Mennen  and
Esther de Leeuw
Ineke Mennen*
Affiliation:
Bangor University
Esther de Leeuw
Affiliation:
Queen Mary, University of London
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*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ineke Mennen, Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Bangor University, 37-41 College Road, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG, United Kingdom. E-mail: i.mennen@bangor.ac.uk
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 36 , Issue 2: Beyond Segments: Prosody in SLA , June 2014 , pp. 183 - 194
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The idea of putting together this special issue originated during a workshop on L2 prosody at Bangor University organized by the first author. We would like to thank all participants of that workshop for the enthusiasm with which this idea was received. We wish to express our sincere thanks to all of the authors for their excellent contributions to this issue and to the SSLA editorial team for all their help in bringing this issue to completion. We extend a particular thank-you to the Arts and Humanities Research Council for providing the first author with the time to help shape this special issue through a fellowship (AH/J000302/1).

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