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What counts as (contact-induced) change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2011

SHANA POPLACK ,
LAUREN ZENTZ  and
NATHALIE DION
SHANA POPLACK*
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
LAUREN ZENTZ
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
NATHALIE DION
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
*
Address for correspondence: Shana Poplack, 70 Laurier East, Suite 422, Ottawa, ON, CanadaK1N 6N5spoplack@uottawa.ca
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We are most grateful to our commentators for their careful reading of our Keynote Article (henceforth KA) and their incisive observations on contact-induced change, and for the many challenging and thought-provoking issues they raise. We welcome the opportunity to respond to (some of) them, especially since, perhaps not surprisingly, these are symptomatic of the very issues in the field of contact linguistics that prompted us to write this KA in the first place.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 247 - 254
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