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Review published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 8:2 (1993) ► pp.241–251

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Ronald Butters. The death of black English: Divergence and convergence in black and white vernaculars. Ronald Butters. Frankfurt: Verlag Peter Lang, 1989. xii, 227 pp. $40.80

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Published online: 1 January 1993
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