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‘Chend’ met <e> – ‘Kind’ mit <e>: using Big Data to explore phoneme-to-grapheme mapping in Lucerne Swiss German

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‘Chend’ met <e> – ‘Kind’ mit <e> using Big Data to explore phoneme-to-grapheme mapping in Lucerne Swiss German. / Zihlmann, Urban; Leemann, Adrian.
Phonetik und Phonologie: 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie in Deutschsprachigen Raum. ed. / Christoph Draxler; Felicitas Kleber. 12. ed. 2016. p. 236-240.

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Zihlmann, U & Leemann, A 2016, ‘Chend’ met <e> – ‘Kind’ mit <e> using Big Data to explore phoneme-to-grapheme mapping in Lucerne Swiss German. in C Draxler & F Kleber (eds), Phonetik und Phonologie: 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie in Deutschsprachigen Raum. 12 edn, pp. 236-240. <https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29405/1/Tagungsband_Phonetik_und_Phonologie_2016.pdf>

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Zihlmann, U., & Leemann, A. (2016). ‘Chend’ met <e> – ‘Kind’ mit <e> using Big Data to explore phoneme-to-grapheme mapping in Lucerne Swiss German. In C. Draxler, & F. Kleber (Eds.), Phonetik und Phonologie: 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie in Deutschsprachigen Raum (12 ed., pp. 236-240) https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29405/1/Tagungsband_Phonetik_und_Phonologie_2016.pdf

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Zihlmann U, Leemann A. ‘Chend’ met <e> – ‘Kind’ mit <e> using Big Data to explore phoneme-to-grapheme mapping in Lucerne Swiss German. In Draxler C, Kleber F, editors, Phonetik und Phonologie: 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie in Deutschsprachigen Raum. 12 ed. 2016. p. 236-240

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Zihlmann, Urban ; Leemann, Adrian. / ‘Chend’ met <e> – ‘Kind’ mit <e> using Big Data to explore phoneme-to-grapheme mapping in Lucerne Swiss German. Phonetik und Phonologie: 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie in Deutschsprachigen Raum. editor / Christoph Draxler ; Felicitas Kleber. 12. ed. 2016. pp. 236-240

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