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Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1] 2023
► pp. 51–55
Commentary

What linguistic innovation tells us

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| The Pennsylvania State University
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Article outline
  • Late-stage Language Shift
  • Moribund Multilingualism
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
Published online: 2 February 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.22074.bou
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