The study of dialects offers a fascinating approach to learning about language. By learning about how language varies geographically and socially, students will come to understand that language changes over time, and that language use is linked to social identity. Language variation, or dialect diversity, reflects the fact that languages change…

Revised version of a paper presented at the Language-Learning Conference, Lake Wilderness, Washington, March 3, 1973. (RL)

The claim that dialects of a language do not always share the same underlying forms is known as the independency principle. (DD)

The author argues that Black English should not be accepted as standard in the classroom. (MM)

Modifies some widely held beliefs based on previous research on miscue analysis. (RB)

Based on the author's Ph.D. dissertation, Socio-linguistic Development on the Saar,'' Liverpool University, 1969. (RS)

Special issue on French dialects. (RL)

Proposes to demonstrate that the Qieyun language, long used as the basis for Chinese dialectal comparison, is an inadequate basis for explaining the tonal evolution of some of the Min dialects; research supported by the U.S. Office of Education and the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton University. (RS)

Research supported by a National Science Foundation grant to the Phonology Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley. (RS)

Expanded version of a paper read at the Pacific Conference on Contrastive Linguistics and Language Universals, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 15, 1971. (DD)

Paper to be presented at the Seventh International Congress of Slavists in Warsaw, Poland, August 1973. (DS)