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Dillard, J. L. – Florida FL Reporter, 1973
Examins historical and current views of pidgins and creoles. (KM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Nonstandard Dialects
Dillard, J. L. – Florida FL Reporter, 1974
A discussion of the historical development of American dialects. (RM)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, North American English, Regional Dialects
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Dillard, J. L. – English Record, 1971
Black English-Negro Nonstandard English, or Negro dialect,"-although perhaps represented by less divergent varieties in the Northern cities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is here shown to have been there all along. (JM)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics
Dillard, J. L. – 1977
The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate that the fields of linguistics, dialectology, language education, and early reading would be well served by a word book of the Black English vernacular. Chapters are devoted to discussion of the social significance of a lexicon of Black English vernacular, the terminology of sex and lovemaking, religion…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Research