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Re-Examining Vernacular Black English

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American earlier Black English: Morphological and syntactic variables. By Edgar W.Schneider Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 314. $27.00.
The death of Black English: Divergence and convergence in black and white vernaculars. By Ronald R.Butters (Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft, 25.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1989. Pp. xii, 227.

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Walt Wolfram
Walt Wolfram*
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University of the District of Columbia and Center for Applied Linguistics
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Center for Applied Linguistics 1118 22nd Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037
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Language , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , March 1990, pp. 121 - 133
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Copyright © 1990 by the Linguistic Society of America

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Thanks to Guy Bailey, John Baugh, Donna Christian, Ralph W. Fasold, Shana Poplack, and Fay Vaughn-Cooke for their insightful comments on a preliminary version of this review article.

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