Neighborhood effects on use of African-American Vernacular English

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 11817-11822

  Rickford, John R ^a   Duncan, Greg J ^b   Gennetian, Lisa A ^c   Gou, Ray Yun ^d   Greene, Rebecca ^a   Katz, Lawrence F ^d,e   Kessler, Ronald C ^f   Kling, Jeffrey R ^d,g   Sanbonmatsu, Lisa ^d   Sanchez Ordoñez, Andres E ^a   Sciandra, Matthew ^d   Thomas, Ewart ^a   Ludwig, Jens ^d,h   McLanahan, Sara S ⁱ  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g Macroeconomic Analysis Division   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁱ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American Vernacular English; Code switching; Language; Neighborhood effects; Segregation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PHONETICS; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84942929263     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500176112     Document Type: Article

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