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It is well known that any large, socially complex speech community will be linguistically differentiated not only along geographical dimensions, as studied by traditional and modern dialectologists, but also according to sociodemographic characteristics of speakers and the contextual features of situations and activities.
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Poplack, S. (1982). Bilingualism and the Vernacular. In: Hartford, B., Valdman, A., Foster, C.R. (eds) Issues in International Bilingual Education. Topics in Language and Linguistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4235-9_1
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