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A New Mechanism For Contact-Induced Change

Published: Oct. 11, 2011, 6:35 p.m.

b'A New Mechanism For Contact-Induced Change; by H.D. Onesimus; From Volume CL, Number 3 of Speculative Grammarian, July 2005. \\u2014 Modern contact linguistics has demonstrated an impressive ability to account for language change and the emergence of new languages with a remarkably small number of mechanisms: bilingualism, creolization, borrowing, and convergence (also known as \\u201csmart drift\\u201d). (Read by Keith Slater.)'