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Walt Wolfram & Erik R. Thomas, The development of African American English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2006

John Baugh
John Baugh
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Education & Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, jbaugh@stanford.edu
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Walt Wolfram & Erik R. Thomas, The development of African American English. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. Pp. ix, 237. Pb $40.95.

Wolfram and Thomas (W&T) have produced a meticulous study of African American English and its development, based on extensive fieldwork and ensuing linguistic analyses in Hyde County, North Carolina. W&T worked in collaboration with Elaine W. Green, Becky Childes, Dan Beckett, and Benjamin Torbert. Any student of African American English, or of sociolinguistics in general, will find a wealth of knowledge in this volume that reflects advanced studies of African American English that connect synchronic studies with their diachronic relevance.

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Language in Society , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 152 - 155
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Labov, William. (1994). Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors. Oxford: Blackwell.