Machine learning of word pronunciation: the case against abstraction
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ION Bertjan Busser Walter Daelemans Antal van den Bosch ILK Computational Linguistics Tilburg University The Netherlands fG J Busser Walter Daelemans Antal vdnBoschg kub nl
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تاریخ انتشار 1999