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Huang, Xiaozhao – 1999
A study analyzed the use of six nonstandard linguistic variables by eight adolescent and eight adult African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), each group equally divided into males and females, from Muncie, Indiana. The study was designed to investigate whether occupation, a social variable, also determines AAVE speakers' use of nonstandard…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Black Dialects
