Knowledge of grammar, knowledge of usage: Syntactic probabilities affect pronunciation variation

Language

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 748-775

  Gahl, Susanne ^a   Garnsey, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 12344321093     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2004.0185     Document Type: Review

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