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Nancy C. Dorian, Language death. The life cycle of a Scottish Gaelic dialect. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. Pp. xxiii + 206.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Suzanne Romaine
Suzanne Romaine
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Department of Linguistics, University of Birmingham.
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1983 , pp. 272 - 277
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