Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ671655
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2003
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Reexaming the Development of African American English: Evidence from Isolated Communities.
Wolfram, Walt
Language, v79 n2 p282-316 Jun 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 baseline European American speakers. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Morphology (Languages), Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Syntax
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: North Carolina
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