When cultural maintenance means linguistic convergence: Pennsylvania German evidence for the Matrix language turnover hypothesis

Language in Society

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 493-514

  Fuller, Janet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/s0047404500020790     Document Type: Article

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