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Response to Goodman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2026

Sarah Jülianne Roberts
Sarah Jülianne Roberts*
Affiliation:
Stanford University
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Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 [jroberts@csli.stanford.edu]
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Morris Goodman brings into focus an error which is of minor consequence to my article (correcting it alters neither my analysis nor the article's theoretical importance) but has significance in assessing Goodman's contribution to the debate on creole origins. My error was in linking Goodman too closely to an explicit model that was fully developed by John Holm (1986, 1988, 1989, 1992).

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Discussion Notes
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Language , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 349 - 351
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Copyright © 1999 Linguistic Society of America

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