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Regional Chinese in Contact
Edited by James A. Walker
[Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5:1] 2019
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Introduction

Special issue on regional Chinese in contact

| La Trobe University
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Chinese in contact
  • 3.The linguistic study of Chinese
  • 4.The papers in this volume
    • 4.1Contact in China (Cantonese-English-Putonghua)
    • 4.2Contact in the Chinese diaspora
      • Chinese in Australia
      • Chinese in Canada
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Note
  • References


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Published online: 13 June 2019
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