Prosodic focus with and without post-focus compression: A typological divide within the same language family?

Linguistic Review

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 131-147

  Xu, Yi ^a   Chen, Szu Wei ^a   Wang, Bei ^a  

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EID: 84859855138     PISSN: 01676318     EISSN: 16133676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2012-0006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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