A community-based test of a linguistic hypothesis

Language in Society

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-111

  Cameron, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/s0047404500020431     Document Type: Article

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