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Vol. 13:1 (1992) ► pp.134–138

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Book review

Barbara Lalla & Jean D’Costa. Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole. Tuscaloosa … London: University of Alabama Press, 1990. xvii + 276 pp. $39.95 hb.

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Published online: 1 January 1992
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