Evidence for the universality of language simplification: ‘Foreigner Talk’

Tweissi, Adel I.

doi:10.1075/cilt.72.16twe

In:Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Mushira Eid and John McCarthy
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 72] 1990
► pp. 296–326

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‘Foreigner Talk’

Evidence for the universality of language simplification

Adel I. Tweissi

Published online: 1 January 1990

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.72.16twe

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