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The impact of L2 Spanish learners’ attitudes toward Spanish sociophonetic variation on use and belonging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2025

Estefania Galindo-Navarro*
Affiliation:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Annika Brody Wallander
Affiliation:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Rajiv Rao
Affiliation:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
*
Corresponding author: Estefania Galindo-Navarro; Email: galindo3@wisc.edu

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