To Epenthesize or Not? Adaptations of English Coda [m] in Standard Mandarin Loanwords
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2377-3324
DOI: 10.3765/amp.v3i0.3686