Xiaozhao Huang. Study of African-American Vernacular English in America’s “Middletown”: Evidence of linguistic convergence
Xiaozhao Huang. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. xviii, 278 pp. plus subject index. Hardback. $99.95 To order electronically, contact. or. www.mellenpress.com

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Walter F. Edwards | Wayne State University

Published online: 11 November 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.18.2.15edw

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