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African Quotes by William Labov
- An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in…
- It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second…
- However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more…
- This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and…
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