Selected References
A phonetically based hypothesis on the evolution of zi rime change: Evidence from the Xiaxian dialect
Yifan Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Xiaopei Wang (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
Poster at the 17th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL-17), October 2026, Hefei, China.
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