Lexical Shift in Working Class New Zealnd English: Variation in the Use of Lexical Pairs

Meyerhoff, Miriam

doi:10.1075/eww.14.2.04mey

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Vol. 14:2 (1993) ► pp.231–248

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Lexical Shift in Working Class New Zealnd English

Variation in the Use of Lexical Pairs

Miriam Meyerhoff | Department of Linguistics, 619 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104–6305, USA

Published online: 1 January 1993

https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.14.2.04mey

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