Geminate inalterability and lenition

Language

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 509-545

  Kirchner, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.2307/417134     Document Type: Article

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