The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings

Montgomery, Michael

doi:10.1075/cll.8.08mon

In:The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary
Edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila
[Creole Language Library 8] 1991
► pp. 173–190

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The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings

Michael Montgomery

Published online: 10 April 1991

https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.8.08mon

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1997. Relativization strategies in Earlier African American Vernacular English. Language Variation and Change 9:2 ► pp. 219 ff.

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