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Publication details [#37612]

Rickford, John R. 1987. The haves and have nots: Sociolinguistic surveys and the assessment of speaker competences. Language in Society 16 (1) : 149–177.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | sociolinguistics | speaker

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper on the assessment of speaker competence through sociolinguistic surveys, argues that these surveys need to employ more repeated recordings and elicited intuitions.