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Chapter 5 - American Indian English

from Part II - The Americas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

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Elizabeth L. Coggshall
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Jeffrey P. Williams ,
Edgar W. Schneider ,
Peter Trudgill  and
Daniel Schreier
Jeffrey P. Williams
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Texas Tech University
Edgar W. Schneider
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Universität Regensburg, Germany
Peter Trudgill
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Universitetet i Agder, Norway
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Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English , pp. 99 - 127
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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