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ERIC Number: EJ464176
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0097-8507
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Re-examining Vernacular Black English.
Wolfram, Walt
Language, v66 n1 p121-33 Mar 1990
Reviews two books, "American Earlier Black English," by Edgar W. Schneider, and "The Death of Black English," by Ronald Butters, that capture the essence of the renewed controversy on the reemergence of the historical issue and a new dispute over the current development of Vernacular Black English. (36 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Sociolinguistics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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