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Peer reviewedPoplack, Shana; Tagliamonte, Sali – Language Variation and Change, 1989
An analysis of the linguistic and social contexts of the occurrence of verbal "-s" marking in early Black English, within a historical and comparative perspective, shows that both third person singular and nonconcord "-s" are subject to regular, parallel environmental conditioning. (68 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Black Dialects, Consonants, Diachronic Linguistics
