Portfolio entry # 4

BOOK: Yule, G (2016). The Study of Language. Chapters 10 & 11 . U.K.: CUP.

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Portfolio entry # 12 -Videos-

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Entry *8 - Literary essay- I am not like you...do I deserve ill-treatment?

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