Persian Sentence Stress Production by Mandarin Chinese Speakers

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  • Niloofar Mansoory Harehdasht Assistant Professor, Payame Noor University
  • Vahid Sadeghi Assistant Professor, Imam Khomeini International University
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Journal title

volume 5  issue شماره یک- پیاپی 11

pages  95- 119

publication date 2016-06-21

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