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Holt, Yolanda Feimster – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation evaluates the relationship between African American English and White Vernacular English as spoken in a small rural town in western North Carolina for consistencies in vowel production by group membership and for participation in the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS), a vowel rotation currently occurring in the Southern United States. A…
Descriptors: Vowels, Word Lists, Statistical Analysis, North American English
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Bloome, Deirdre; Western, Bruce – Social Forces, 2011
Policy reforms and rising income inequality transformed educational and economic opportunities for Americans approaching midlife in the 1990s. Rising income inequality may have reduced mobility, as income gaps increased between rich and poor children. Against the effects of rising inequality, Civil Rights reforms may have increased mobility, as…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Family Income, Racial Differences, Educational Mobility