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Paul Kerswill, Dialects converging: Rural speech in urban Norway. (Oxford studies in language contact.) Oxford: Clarendon, 1994. Pp. xiv, 181. Hb £25.00, $39.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2009

Janet Holmes
Affiliation:
Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

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