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University of North Florida

1987

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Black English In A Suburban Southern County, Jane Love Jan 1987

Black English In A Suburban Southern County, Jane Love

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A comparison of the spoken language of adolescent Black males living in three southern suburban communities was conducted. The results indicated certain trends by locale in the areas of morphology, phonology, syntax and semantics. The findings affirm the assumption that it is possible to determine likenesses and differences in the Black English spoken by Black males living in three isolated communities with a rating instrument.

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