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Chapter 18 - Early Recordings from Ghana

A Variationist Approach to the Phonological History of an Outer Circle Variety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2017

Raymond Hickey
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Listening to the Past
Audio Records of Accents of English
, pp. 444 - 463
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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