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Article published In: Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 18:1 (2015) ► pp.158–166

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Sociolinguistic variation, language change and contact in the British Sign Language (BSL) lexicon

(Deafness Cognition & Language Research Centre, University College London, 2013)

 | University of Haifa
Published online: 29 October 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.18.1.08sta
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