The Evolution of Complexity in a Creole Language: Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Tok Pisin

Romaine, Suzanne

doi:10.1075/sl.16.1.06rom

Article published In: Studies in Language
Vol. 16:1 (1992) ► pp.139–182

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The Evolution of Complexity in a Creole Language

Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Tok Pisin

Suzanne Romaine | Merton College, University of Oxford

Published online: 1 January 1992

https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.16.1.06rom

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