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Foundation Stage
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Definition: The first stage in the spread of a language into a region where it was not previously spoken; typically characterized by heterogeneous usage patterns by speakers from different dialect areas.
Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
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