Standard English in Jamaica: A Case of Competing Models

Shields-Brodber, Kathryn

doi:10.1075/eww.10.1.03shi

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Vol. 10:1 (1989) ► pp.41–53

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Standard English in Jamaica

A Case of Competing Models

Kathryn Shields-Brodber | Department of Linguistics and Use of English, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica

Published online: 1 January 1989

https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.10.1.03shi

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