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Language change and adaptation in a Tok Pisin newspaper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Stephen Levey
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Aspects of variation in the Papua-New Guinea newspaper ‘Wantok’

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 20 - 25
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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