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The Development of Falling Contours from Tone Bending in Hausa

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

paper
Creator:
Pau
Publisher:
Lin
Host:
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on The Typology of Tone Languages (1992)

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Languages

Hausa

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