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Introduction published In: What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates
Edited by Jonathan R. Kasstan
[Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8:2] 2022
► pp. 139–149

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Introduction

What’s so standard about standards?

 | University of Westminster
Published online: 1 December 2022
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