Structure and Substance in Artificial-phonology Learning, Part I: Structure

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 686-701

  Moreton, Elliott ^a   Pater, Joe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1002/lnc3.363     Document Type: Article

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