There’s sheep and there’s penguins: Convergence, “drift” and “slant” in New Zealand and Falkland Island english

Language Change: The Interplay of Internal, External and Extra-Linguistic Factors

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 209-242

  Britain, David ^a   Sudbury, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110892598.209     Document Type: Chapter

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