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Download full textWolfram, Walter A. – 1968
The measurement of sociolinguistic behavior requires the formulation of a unit which can take into account continuous, ordered variation within and across discrete linguistic types--the linguistic variable. The linguistic variable, itself an abstraction, is realized in actual speech behavior by variants. The formulation of the linguistic variable…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Dialects, Blacks, Dialect Studies
