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Acoustic and articulatory variation in British Asian English liquids. / Kirkham, Sam; Wormald, Jessica.
Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2015. p. 1-5.

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Kirkham, S & Wormald, J 2015, Acoustic and articulatory variation in British Asian English liquids. in Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, pp. 1-5. <http://www.icphs2015.info/pdfs/Papers/ICPHS0640.pdf>

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Kirkham, S., & Wormald, J. (2015). Acoustic and articulatory variation in British Asian English liquids. In Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1-5). University of Glasgow. http://www.icphs2015.info/pdfs/Papers/ICPHS0640.pdf

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Kirkham S, Wormald J. Acoustic and articulatory variation in British Asian English liquids. In Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow: University of Glasgow. 2015. p. 1-5

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Kirkham, Sam ; Wormald, Jessica. / Acoustic and articulatory variation in British Asian English liquids. Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow : University of Glasgow, 2015. pp. 1-5

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