Syllables and the word-prosodic system in Sign Language of the Netherlands

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1307-1327

  van der Kooij, Els ^a   Crasborn, Onno ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

NGT; Phonotactics; Prosody; Sign language; Sign Language of the Netherlands; Syllable

Indexed keywords

EID: 52049117193     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.09.013     Document Type: Article

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