A Note on Fluctuating Variants and the Status of Vernacular Black English [electronic resource] / Walt Wolfram.

One of the most significant problems that linguists face in their attempts to describe Vernacular Black English (VBE) is the matter of fluctuating forms. It is consistently observed that speakers appear to fluctuate between a socially stigmatized variant and its presumed nonstigmatized counterpart....

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Wolfram, Walt
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1973.
Subjects:	Black Dialects. Descriptive Linguistics. Dialect Studies. English. Language Styles. Nonstandard Dialects. Social Dialects. Sociolinguistics. Standard Spoken Usage.