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DIALECTS: Especially Southern English, and Ebonics

SOUTHERN ENGLISH
"Just Joking? Dialect prejudice is alive and well in America", a paper by Weber Student, Warren Pettey (to be submitted Summer '99)
EBONICS (African American Vernacular English)
Language Policy and Public Knowledge, by Carolyn Temple Adger
(Center for Applied Linguistics)
http://www.cal.org/EBONICS/EBOPED.HTM
Stanford Professor on the Ebonics issue: Wonderful site!
http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/ebonics/
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Resolution on Ebonics
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/ebonics.lsa.html
Center for Applied Linguistics: Ebonics Information Page
http://www.cal.org/ebonics
A Berkeley linguist looks at the Ebonics Debate, by Charles Fillmore
http://www.cal.org/ebonics/ebfillmo.htm
Dialect Education, Not Just for Oakland
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/News/9703Dialect.html
Ebonics and Linguistic Science: Clarifying the Issues, by Walt Wolfram, for the National Science Foundation
http://www.cal.org/ebonics/wolfram.htm
Dialect Readers Revisited (summary of an article by Rickford & Rickford)
http://www.cal.org/ebonics/ebrickfo.htm
 

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