African American Language: Language Development from Infancy to Adulthood - Softcover

Kohn, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108798985 ISBN 13: 9781108798983

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2020

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A pioneering 20-year longitudinal study of 67 African American children that illuminates how and why language changes in childhood.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Mary Kohn is Associate Professor in English at Kansas State University. Her work examines linguistic variation across the lifespan, youth language practices, and regional sound change. Her book, The Way I Communicate Changes But How I Speak Don't (2015), is available through the American Dialect Society.

Walt Wolfram is a William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor at North Carolina State University, and has pioneered research on social and ethnic dialects since the 1960s. He has published more than twenty books and over 300 articles. The recipient of numerous awards, Dr Wolfram was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Charlie Farrington developed the Corpus of Regional African American Language, in collaboration with Dr Tyler Kendall. His numerous publications address regionality in African American Language, lifespan change, and sociophonetic variation.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1108798985
• ISBN 13: 9781108798983
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
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