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Edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin, Paul V. Kroskrity and Kathryn A. Woolard
[Pragmatics 2:3] 1992
► pp. 427–443

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The “real” Haitian creole

Metalinguistics and orthographic choice

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Published online: 1 September 1992
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