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In:Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew
Edited by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 256] 2019
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Why do children lead contact-induced language change in some contexts but not others?

 | Australian National University
Published online: 18 September 2019
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.When children lead contact-induced language change
  • 3.The role of children in the emergence of light Warlpiri
  • 4.Factors that allow the emergence of a new way of speaking
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
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