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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 31:2 (2016) ► pp.419–435

You got Gungbe, but we got the numbers

Feature pools show that creoles are still typologically distinct

| Aarhus University, Denmark
Published online: 21 October 2016
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