[Abstract] A Possible new cause of tone-splitting--evidence from Cama, Yorba and Yoruba and other languages

Domain:

natural language processing

Creator:

Mad

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Abstract from: Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 5:205-221, 1974

Languages

Yoruba

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