In defense of lab speech

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 329-336

  Xu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77955095275     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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