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Chapter 6 - The Origins of Liverpool English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2017

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Kevin Watson  and
Lynn Clark
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Raymond Hickey
Raymond Hickey
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Universität Duisburg–Essen
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Listening to the Past
Audio Records of Accents of English
 , pp. 114 - 141
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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