Creole history relationship to Euro-American English: Contraction and deletion in vernacular black English

Fasold, Ralph W.; Nakano, Yoshiko

doi:10.1075/cilt.127.23fas

In:Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov
Edited by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 127] 1996
► pp. 373–396

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Contraction and deletion in vernacular black English

Creole history relationship to Euro-American English

Ralph W. Fasold

Yoshiko Nakano

Published online: 19 August 1996

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.127.23fas

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