Understanding transition probabilities

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 415-431

  Cysouw, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 84857499773     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2011.028     Document Type: Article

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