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Performing linguistic variation in the Caribbean - Guyanne Wilson, The Sociolinguistics of Singing: Dialect and Style in Classical Choral Singing in Trinidad. Münster: MV Wissenschaft, 2014. Pp. ix + 376. Paperback $27, ISBN 978-3-8405-0101-2 - Michael Westphal, Language Variation on Jamaican Radio. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017. Pp. xvi + 257. Hardcover $158, ISBN 978-90-272-4920-3

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Guyanne Wilson, The Sociolinguistics of Singing: Dialect and Style in Classical Choral Singing in Trinidad. Münster: MV Wissenschaft, 2014. Pp. ix + 376. Paperback $27, ISBN 978-3-8405-0101-2
Michael Westphal, Language Variation on Jamaican Radio. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017. Pp. xvi + 257. Hardcover $158, ISBN 978-90-272-4920-3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2018

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English Today , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , September 2019 , pp. 64 - 66
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