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Restructuring Chinese Speech Communities: Urbanization, language contact and identity formationEdited by Marinus van den Berg
[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:1] 2016
► pp. 161–173
Edited by Marinus van den Berg
[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:1] 2016
► pp. 161–173
Book review
. A Sociophonetic Study on Tonal Variation of the Wúxī and Shànghăi Dialects
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