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ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF PIDGIN AND CREOLE LANGUAGES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2006

Peter Snow
Peter Snow
Affiliation:
Christopher Newport University
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ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF PIDGIN AND CREOLE LANGUAGES. Claire Lefebvre. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004. Pp. xvi + 358. $119.00 cloth.

This volume is a collection of 10 articles that Lefebvre has written since the publication of her 1998 volume, Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar: The case of Haitian Creole. With the exception of the first chapter (a brief introduction) and the third chapter (a summary of her relexification hypothesis), the chapters of this volume consist of articles that were originally published elsewhere. For that reason, each chapter essentially stands on its own. Consequently, the volume suffers from some unavoidable overlap and, more significantly, a lack of coherence.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , December 2006 , pp. 638 - 639
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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