Timing Tonogenesis: Evidence from Borrowing
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
سال: 2002
ISSN: 2377-1666,0363-2946
DOI: 10.3765/bls.v28i2.1043