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Chapter 5 - American Indian English

from Part II - The Americas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Jeffrey P. Williams
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Texas Tech University
Edgar W. Schneider
Affiliation:
Universität Regensburg, Germany
Peter Trudgill
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Universitetet i Agder, Norway
Daniel Schreier
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Universität Zürich
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