Seri vowels and the obligatory contour principle
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0361-4700
DOI: 10.31356/silwp.vol38.05