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Peer reviewedLabov, William – Language, 1972
Preliminary version of this paper was given at the 1968 winter meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York City, based upon work supported by the Office of Education as a Cooperative Research Project. (VM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, English
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This report presents some of the findings of several years research on the relations between the non-standard English used by Negro speakers in various urban ghetto areas (NNE) and standard English (SE). The immediate subject is the status of the copula and auxiliary "be" in NNE. The approach to the problem combines the methods of…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, English
