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Wolfram, Walt; And Others – 1993
A sociolinguistic study of Ocracoke, an island community in North Carolina's Outer Banks, investigated the social dynamics of language change and variation. Data were gathered in interviews with 43 island residents aged 12-82, most of whose families have been on the island for several generations. Several major sociolinguistic issues were…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Variation

Wolfram, Walt – Language Learning, 1978
Discusses the applicability of the notion of structured variability in language to contrastive analysis. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Language Research
Wolfram, Walt – 1993
Two traditional principles have served as the basis for the involvement of linguists in social issues, namely the principle of error correction and the principle of debt incurred (Labov, 1982). It is argued that an additional principle should motivate linguists to take a more proactive role in social issues, the principle of linguistic gratuity.…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Ethics, Language Patterns
Wolfram, Walt – 1971
The English spoken by second generation Puerto Ricans in Harlem is influenced by black English heard in the surrounding community, standard English used in the school, and the Spanish-influenced English used by the first generation Puerto Rican community. The study of these influences is conducted according to recently developed sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Comparative Analysis, Consonants