Prosodic Realization of Focus in Bilingual Production of Southern Min and Mandarin
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Prosodic Realization of Focus in Bilingual Production of Southern Min and Mandarin
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عنوان ژورنال: Phonetica
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1423-0321,0031-8388
DOI: 10.1159/000371891