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The effect of homophony avoidance in voicing 避免谐音在发音中的作用

The Even Yearbook Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.57133/evenyrbk.22gk

Zoltán G. Kiss

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Not so exceptional case marking in English 在英语中没有那么特殊的大小写标注

The Even Yearbook Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.57133/evenyrbk.22ns

Krisztina Szécsényi, M. Newson

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‘They are what define us’, ‘You are what make us great’. Plural-agreeing what in free relatives serving as predicates “他们定义了我们”，“你们让我们变得伟大”。复数表示在自由亲属中用作谓语的东西

The Even Yearbook Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.57133/evenyrbk.22di

Marcel den Dikken

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Early Modern English pronunciation — The evidence from Hungarian 早期现代英语发音——来自匈牙利语的证据

The Even Yearbook Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.57133/evenyrbk.22st

Attila Starčević

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