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Re-examining Vernacular Black English.
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Wolfram, Walt – Language, 1990
Reviews two books, "American Earlier Black English," by Edgar W. Schneider, and "The Death of Black English," by Ronald Butters, that capture the essence of the renewed controversy on the reemergence of the historical issue and a new dispute over the current development of Vernacular Black English. (36 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Sociolinguistics
Reexaming the Development of African American English: Evidence from Isolated Communities.
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Wolfram, Walt – Language, 2003
Examines several longstanding, isolated biracial sociolinguistic situations in the coastal and Appalachian regions of North Carolina: a core community of African Americans and two case studies of isolated speakers. Compares diagnostic phonological and morphosyntactic variables for speakers representing different generations of African American and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Morphology (Languages)