“A Note on the Mid Back Slack Unrounded Vowel [a] in the English of Today”

— William Joyce

Review of English Studies http://intl-res.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/os-IV/15/337, 1928 os-IV: 337-340. <br class="br">Title of the first published work by Joyce.

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