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Publication details [#37632]

Bailey, Guy and Natalie Maynor. 1987. Decreolization? Language in Society 16 (4) : 449–473.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
creole | language change | language variety | sociolinguistics
Language as a subject
Creole, Carribean | English, Black
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper argues that Black English Vernacular is not decreolizing, but diverging from white speech.