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ERIC Number: EJ207482
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1978
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The Historical Development of Ebonics.
Smith, Ernie A.
Western Journal of Black Studies, v2 n3 p202-07 Fall 1978
Three linguistic theories (the creolist, the transformationalist, and the ethnolinguistic) of the origin and historical development of Ebonics in America are examined. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Attitudes, Linguistic Theory, Opinions, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Transformational Generative Grammar
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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