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Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change
Edited by Janne Bondi Johannessen † and Joseph C. Salmons
[Studies in Language Variation 18] 2015
► pp. 1–18

The study of Germanic heritage languages in the Americas

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Published online: 20 August 2015
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