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

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natural language processing

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Mad

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

Languages

Yoruba

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