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Further demystifying word stress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Augustin Simo Bobda
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Abstract

A reply to and development of David Taylor's ‘Demystifying word stress’ (ET48, Oct 96)

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English Today , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 48 - 55
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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