Ethnolects and the city: Ethnic orientation and linguistic variation in Toronto English

Language Variation and Change

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-67

  Hoffman, Michol F ^a   Walker, James A ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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