[Ads-l] Antedating of "Black English Vernacular"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Black English Vernacular (OED 1972)

1969 Walter A. Wolfram "Social Dialects from a Linguistic Perspective" (ERIC ED032535) 41 (Internet Archive)

Most linguistically sophisticated speakers of Black English ... have lost sensitivity to the grammatical boundaries of the Black English vernacular.

Fred Shapiro

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