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Chapter 5 - London's Cockney in the Twentieth Century

Stability or Cycles of Contact-Driven Change?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2017

Raymond Hickey
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Universität Duisburg–Essen
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Listening to the Past
Audio Records of Accents of English
, pp. 85 - 113
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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