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Williamson, Juanita Virginia – Publication of the American Dialect Society, 1968
This study of certain phonological and morphological aspects of the Negro speech of Memphis, Tennessee, is a revision of the author's 1961 Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of Michigan. Twenty-four informants, all but one of whom were native Memphians, were used for the study; they were classed according to education and age. The interview…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Educational Background
