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Directionality and locality in vowel harmony : with special reference to vowel harmony in Assamese

@inproceedings{Mahanta2008DirectionalityAL,
  title={Directionality and locality in vowel harmony : with special reference to vowel harmony in Assamese},
  author={Shakuntala Mahanta},
  year={2008}
}
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