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In:Approaches to Interlinguistics and Esperanto Studies
Edited by Ilona Koutny and Nicolau A. Dols Salas
[Studies in World Language Problems 12] 2027
► pp. 55–70

Chapter 4
Bilingual couples speaking Esperanto as a lingua franca

A self-reported language use

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Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Method
  • Sample and data collection
  • Results and discussion
    • Repertoires
    • Misunderstandings
  • Conclusion
  • Author queries
  • Note
  • Bibliography
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