Regularity and vowel harmony: Statistical learning and rule abstraction
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2377-3367
DOI: 10.3765/exabs.v0i0.518