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Article published In: Linguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte
[International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 2:2] 2016
► pp. 131–150

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Linguistic innovations in EFL and ESL

Rethinking the linguistic creativity of non-native English speakers

 | New Mexico State University
 | Justus Liebig University Giessen
 | Université catholique de Louvain
Published online: 20 October 2016
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