Organizing syllables into groups-Evidence from F0 and duration patterns in Mandarin

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 502-520

  Xu, Yi ^a   Wang, Maolin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 70350194732     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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