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Change from Above and Resistance to Change in the Early Prescriptive Pronouncing Dictionaries of English Cover

Change from Above and Resistance to Change in the Early Prescriptive Pronouncing Dictionaries of English

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2019-0015 | Journal eISSN: 2082-5102 | Journal ISSN: 0081-6272
Language: English
Page range: 315 - 336
Published on: Jul 30, 2020
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