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Chapter 14 - Palauan English

from Part III - Asia and the Pacific

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

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David Britain  and
Kazuko Matsumoto
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Jeffrey P. Williams ,
Edgar W. Schneider ,
Peter Trudgill  and
Daniel Schreier
Jeffrey P. Williams
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University
Edgar W. Schneider
Affiliation:
Universität Regensburg, Germany
Peter Trudgill
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Agder, Norway
Daniel Schreier
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Universität Zürich
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Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English , pp. 305 - 343
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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