Contrast and convergence in Standard Jamaican English: The phonological architecture of the standard in an ideologically bidialectal community

World Englishes

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-25

  Irvine, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

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EID: 40049097076     PISSN: 08832919     EISSN: 1467971X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-971X.2008.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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