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Speech communities, language varieties, and typology
What does acquisition have to do with it?
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Developmental stages and language acquisition
- 3.Verb form selection in pidgins, creoles, and immigrant varieties
- 4.Copula selection in pidgins, creoles, and immigrant varieties
- 5.Tense-mood-aspect (TMA) marker selection in pidgins, creoles, and immigrant varieties
- 6.Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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