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On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader
William J. Ashby
[Studies in Language Companion Series 226] 2023
► pp. 451–474

Variable liaison in the Spoken French of Tours: A real-time analysis

Conference paper presented at Association for French Language Studies. L’Université de Tours. Tours, France. September 25, 2003

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Published online: 2 March 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.226.c33
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