Mark Newbrook. 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

Reviewed by

Ronald R. Butters | English Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706, U.S.A.

Published online: 1 January 1987

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