Unstressed Vowel Reduction Across Majorcan Catalan Dialects: Production and Spoken Word Recognition
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عنوان ژورنال: Language and Speech
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0023-8309,1756-6053
DOI: 10.1177/0023830917736019