But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here ….

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be….

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….

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less,….

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstre….

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not ….

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so..

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, a….

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas..