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Book review
. Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Dialect Interference in West Wirral [Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft, 18]. Frankfurt am Main/Bern/New York: Peter Lang, 1986. 234 pp. Sfr 53
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