Peter Trudgill. New Dialect Formation: The inevitability of colonial Englishes. Peter Trudgill. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. xvii, 180 pp.

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Published online: 29 June 2006

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Peter Trudgill. New Dialect Formation: The inevitability of colonial Englishes. Peter Trudgill. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. xvii, 180 pp.

Peter Trudgill. New Dialect Formation: The inevitability of colonial Englishes. Peter Trudgill. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. xvii, 180 pp.