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Publication details [#8358]
Sankoff, Gillian. 1977. Variability and explanation in language and culture: Cliticization in New Guinea Tok Pisin. Georgetown Univerity Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1977 : 59–73. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
S. discusses variability between groups of a population, which can be maintained in spite of constant interaction between the groups. The examples are sex- and generation-related differences in New Guinea (where very rapid language change takes place in the process of creolization).