ebonics

[Charles Brown]

Do you recall the Black English controversy in  Ann Arbor , Michigan (NIMBY in my back yard) in the 70's when a federal judge ordered bilingual ed. ? Around that time a linguistics prof. in Ann Arbor, Robins Burling (anthropologist/linguist) ,told me that some historical trends in English grammar tend toward Black English. Is Labov still a leading scholar in this area ?

Charles Brown


>>> Robert Chametzky <RC84 at cornell.edu> 08/19/99 03:22PM >>>
Despite much experience, as a linguist I continue to find somewhat
astonishing what people will assert about language. For those who might
like a good starting point on Ebonics, I recommend the following URL, that
of John Rickford.

http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/ebonics/		

--RC
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