Historic low prestige and seeds of change: Attitudes toward Jamaican Creole

Language in Society

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-92

  Wassink, Alicia Beckford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0038931345     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0047404599001037     Document Type: Article

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