Reactions to African-American vernacular English: Do more phonological features matter?

Western Journal of Black Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 407-414

  Rodriguez, José I ^a   Cargile, Aaron Castelan ^a   Rich, Marc D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accent scaling; African American vernacular english; Language attitudes; Speaker evaluations

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249192320     PISSN: 01974327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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