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“It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.”

Quote by William Labov

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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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