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Hamilton, Kendra – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
This document shares Dr. Walt Wolfram's views on African-American Dialect. He states that the most elementary principle is that all language is patterned and rule-governed, and one can apply that principle to African-American English, Appalachian English, and to every other dialect that is examined.
Descriptors: African Americans, North American English, Black Dialects, Sociolinguistics
