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Article published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 33:1 (2018) ► pp.174–191

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Speech communities, language varieties, and typology

 | Indiana University – Bloomington, USA
Published online: 7 May 2018
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  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Speech communities and their language varieties
  • 3.Models of language transmission
  • 4.Discussion and concluding remarks
  • Note
  • References
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