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Review published In: Substrate Influence in Creole Formation
Edited by Bettina Migge and Norval Smith
[Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:1] 2007
► pp. 170–176

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Book review

John McWhorter. Defining creole. John McWhorter. Oxford University Press, 2005. 351 pp. Hardback. $49.00

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Published online: 6 April 2007
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