The variability of compound stress in English: Structural, semantic, and analogical factors

English Language and Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 143-172

  Plag, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 34248704823     PISSN: 13606743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1360674306001821     Document Type: Article

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