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Download full textWolfram, 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 – 1992
A construction occurring in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is examined: NPi "call" NPi V"-ing", as in "the woman call herself working." First, a number of reasons that such a form might be overlooked or dismissed as an AAVE dialect form are outlined. Then the sociolinguistic method is applied to the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialects, Grammar, Language Patterns
Wolfram, Walt; And Others – 1971
This research is an attempt to determine the relative influence of Black English and Puerto Rican Spanish in the speech of Puerto Ricans raised contiguous to the black community in Harlem. The first chapter provides a general introduction to the study of this variety of Puerto Rican English and a description of the sample on which this study is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Community, Black Dialects, Disadvantaged Youth
