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| Language Variation and Change | 1 |
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Peer reviewedDenning, Keith – Language Variation and Change, 1989
Quantitative evidence is presented for a change in vernacular Black English (VBE) that appears to involve increasing similarities between VBE and other varieties. It is suggested that, although Black varieties and White varieties of English remain distinct and undergo certain changes separately, this need not be regarded as absolute divergence.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, English
