“This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.”
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William Labov
William Labov, born on December 4, 1927, is an esteemed American linguist known for his significant contributions to the fields of linguistic variation, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. He is renowned for his research on language change, particularly in the phonetic and grammatical variations of American English. more
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