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Peer reviewedDeBose, Charles E. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Black English (BE) and standard English are treated as two different closely related linguistic systems that coexist in African-American linguistics. Focus is on a middle-class female informant who appears to be a balanced bilingual and who offers counter evidence to the claim that BE is spoken mainly by poor and uneducated persons. (13…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Code Switching (Language)
