When the music changes, you change too: Gender and language change in Cajun English

Language Variation and Change

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 287-313

  Dubois, Sylvie ^a   Horvath, Barbara ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 85008001531     PISSN: 09543945     EISSN: 14698021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954394599113036     Document Type: Article

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