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Dillard, J. L. – English Record, 1971
Black English-Negro Nonstandard English, or Negro dialect,"-although perhaps represented by less divergent varieties in the Northern cities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is here shown to have been there all along. (JM)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics

Light, Richard L. – English Record, 1971
Analyzes fourteen conversations generated by five black children, ages six to eleven, from a lower socioeconomic group in Washington, D. C., which were recorded and transcribed in various settings involving adults of different races as interviewers. (JM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students