In:Early Germanic Languages in Contact
Edited by John Ole Askedal and Hans Frede Nielsen †
[NOWELE Supplement Series 27] 2015
► pp. 245–259
Some Unsolved (and Probably Insoluble) Aspects of Initial Fricative Voicing in Early English: Voicing in Early English Viewed as Part of the Great Germanic Lenition
Published online: 11 June 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/nss.27.13lib
https://doi.org/10.1075/nss.27.13lib
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