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Peer reviewedAbrahams, Roger D. – Language in Society, 1972
Explores how a speech variety close to oratorical standard English is learned in one Afro-American peasant community in the West Indies. Material gathered during two field trips, one supported by a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and the other by a National Institute of Mental Health grant. (VM)
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Dialects, Creoles, Diglossia
