Quantifying the language dynamics of bilingual communities

Meakins, Felicity

doi:10.1075/lab.22059.mea

Commentary published In: Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1] 2023
► pp. 76–82

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Quantifying the language dynamics of bilingual communities

Felicity Meakins | University of Queensland

Published online: 2 February 2023

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.22059.mea

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