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Berdan, Robert – 1973
The established unit for reporting sociolinguistic data has been the sociologically determined group. Characteristically, only the mean rate of nonstandard usage for the group is reported for any linguistic feature. Such reporting obscures the possibility of linguistic heterogeneity within the group. Data from Los Angeles school children show that…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Students, Child Language, Comparative Analysis