Re: Speaking without a foreign accent

From: LEE Sau Dan (danlee_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 11/12/04 

Date: 12 Nov 2004 18:08:41 +0800

>>>>> "Mxsmanic" == Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> writes:

    Mxsmanic> Peter T. Daniels writes:
>> ?? Where'd you get that??

    Mxsmanic> From the assertion that one cannot speak with perfect
    Mxsmanic> native pronunciation if one starts after puberty.

Wrong conclusion. Even under that assertion, you cannot conclude that
"pronunciation is fixed after puberty", because (at least) another
possibility is that a person after puberty has less sensitive ears to
pick up the subtle differences between his accent and a native one. 

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Lee Sau Dan                     +Z05biGVm-                          ~{@nJX6X~}
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