Phoneme inventories, language contact, and grammatical complexity: A critique of Trudgill

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 368-375

  Bakker, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Creole; Language contact; Mixed languages; Phoneme inventories; Pidgin; Social structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248692818     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.368     Document Type: Review

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