Resolving phonological variability in Bantu lexical reconstructions: The case of 'to bake in ashes'

Africana Linguistica

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 109-149

  Ricquier, Birgit ^a   Bostoen, Koen ^a  

^a ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

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