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A Re-examination of the Black English Copula. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 66.

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Baugh, John – 1979

A corpus of Black English (BEV) data is re-examined with exclusive attention to the "is" form of the copula. This analysis differs from previous examinations in that more constraints have been introduced, and the Cedergren/Sankoff computer program for multivariant analysis has been employed. The analytic techniques that are used allow for a finer…

Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Language Usage, Language Variation

Black Student Writers, Storks, and Familiar Places: What Can We Learn from the National Assessment of Educational Progress?

Smitherman, Geneva; Wright, Sandra – 1984

Using data consisting of descriptive and expressive-narrative essays written in 1969 and 1979 by black 17-year-old students in the stratified probability sample from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a study investigated which language patterns differentiated the NAEP essays written by black students in 1969 from those…

Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Dialect Studies