Early pitch accent placement within words in American English
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Downstepped Pitch Accent in American English is Categorical and Predictable
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.404582