Unraveling the history of the vowels of seventeen northern Vanuatu languages

Oceanic Linguistics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 443-504

  François, Alexandre ^a  

^a LACITO CNRS   (France)

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EID: 33644626305     PISSN: 00298115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ol.2005.0034     Document Type: Article

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