Making sense of strange sounds: (Mutual) intelligibility of related language varieties. A review

Computing and Language Variation: A Special Issue of International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 39-62

  van Heuven, Vincent J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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