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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
Download full textWilliamson, Juanita V. – 1968
The purpose of this study is to describe the speech of Negro high school students in Memphis, Tennessee. The study deals with the phonology and grammar of the students' speech. The phonological analysis is limited to a description of the segmental phonemes, their allophones, and their incidence. The grammatical analysis is limited to a description…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Black Youth, Blacks
