Yifan Yang   Ph.D. in Linguistics

Temporal Coordination and Markedness in Moenat Ladin Consonant Clusters


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*We gratefully acknowledge Ivy Masoner, Jonathan Paramore, and Nishant Suria for research assistance on this project.