A Summary of the Importance of Dual Language Learning

How Linguists Approach the Study of Language and Dialect . John R. Rickford (ms. January 2002, for students in Ling 73, AAVE, Stanford) Since we will be drawing primarily on linguistic research to tell the story of African American Vernacular English [AAVE], we need to explain some of the premises under which linguists operate, the kinds of principles which are usually covered in the first ... ................
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