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The Haves and Have Nots: Sociolinguistic Surveys and the Assessment of Speaker Competence.
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Rickford, John R. – Language in Society, 1987
Supports a greater use of repeated recordings and elicited intuitions by sociolinguists in assessing the linguistic competence of individuals or groups. A replication of an earlier implicational analysis of pronominal variation in the Guyanese creole continuum shows that, with repeated sampling and the inclusion of elicited intuitions, the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Creoles, Dialect Studies, Discourse Analysis