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Publication details [#38612]

Mallinson, Christine and Becky Childs. 2004. African American English in Appalachia: Dialect accommodation and substrate influence. English World-Wide 25 (1) : 27–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language change | language contact

Language as a subject

English, African American

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Journal DOI

10.1075/eww

Annotation

This study considers diagnostic sociolinguistic variables for Texana residents in order to examine the extent to which the members of this African American community align their speech with local dialect norms as the basis for evaluating the status of earlier and contemporary African American English (AAE) in Appalachia.