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Peer reviewedJohnson, Ellen – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Reports on a longitudinal study of nearly 1,000 English words to determine differences in usage in the United States in the 1930s and 1990s related to age, sex, race, education, region, and rurality. The results indicated that males, whites, older speakers, and speakers from rural areas use more older terms, whereas most educated speakers use…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational Attainment
