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Peer reviewedLabov, William – Language in Society, 1982
Discusses the factors that led to linguists being able to present effective testimony in the form of an unified view on the origins and structural characteristics of the Black English vernacular at the Ann Arbor trial. (EKN)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Education, Court Litigation, Language Research
