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Researchers developed a bimodal assessment framework combining oral and written sentence translation tasks to distinguish between phonetic and morphological errors in ...

Ambiguous speech production is a common challenge for learners of a second language (L2), but identifying whether the problem lies in pronunciation or deeper linguistic processing is not always ...

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