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William Labov (ed.), Locating language in time and space. (Quantitative Analyses of Linguistic Structure 1, W. Labov & D. Sankoff series editors.) New York: Academic Press, 1980, Pp. xx + 271.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Lesley Milroy
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School of Communications Studies, Ulster Polytechnic, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim BT37 OQB, Northern Ireland

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