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Download full textFeagin, Louise Crawford – 1976
In a sociolinguistic study of the verb phrase in Southern White English, a pattern of change in progress was observed. The 14 variables studied showed that certain variants were increasing, others decreasing, and yet others stable across time within the community, and that each variable's change was progressing in a wave sensitive to age, social…
Descriptors: Age, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Interviews
