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Studies in LanguageVol. 1:1 (1977) ► pp.145–149
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. The Study of Social Dialects in American English. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1974. Prentice-Hall International, Inc., 1974. XV + 239 pp. £4.46
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