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The problem of conventionality in the development of creole morphological systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Carla L. Hudson Kam  and
Whitney Goodrich Smith
Carla L. Hudson Kam
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University of British Columbia
Whitney Goodrich Smith
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 109 - 124
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