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Walt Wolfram

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#1374

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#454

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Linguistics

#448

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#590

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#170

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Walt Wolfram's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
Masters Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors English University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Walt Wolfram is an American sociolinguist specializing in social and ethnic dialects of American English. He was one of the early pioneers in the study of urban African American English through his work in Detroit in 1969. He is the William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor at North Carolina State University.

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Walt Wolfram's Published Works

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A sociolinguistic description of Detroit Negro speech (1970) (714)
American English: Dialects and Variation (1998) (467)
The development of African American English (2002) (223)
The Relationship of White Southern Speech to Vernacular Black English (1974) (189)
Dialects and American English (1989) (145)
Convergent explanation and alternative regularization patterns: Were/weren't leveling in a vernacular English variety (1994) (132)
VARIABILITY IN TENSE MARKING: A CASE FOR THE OBVIOUS (1985) (130)
Moribund Dialects and the Endangerment Canon: The Case of the Ocracoke Brogue (1995) (122)
Emerging Hispanic English: New dialect formation in the American South (2004) (113)
Coming of age in African American English: A longitudinal study† (2010) (110)
Linguistic correlates of social stratification in Detroit speech (1968) (109)
Alternative models of dialect death : Dissipation vs. concentration (1999) (103)
Sociolinguistic aspects of assimilation : Puerto Rican English in New York City (1975) (95)
Sociolinguistic Folklore in the Study of African American English (2007) (88)
Field Techniques in an Urban Language Study. (1970) (78)
Identifying and interpreting variables (1993) (77)
American English: Dialects and Variation, 2nd Edition (2005) (76)
Ethnolinguistic Marking of Past be in Lumbee Vernacular English (1999) (72)
Dialect Identity in a Tri-Ethnic Context: The Case of Lumbee American Indian English (1999) (72)
Ethical Considerations in Language Awareness Programs. (1993) (65)
The Linguistic Variable: Fact and Fantasy (1991) (60)
The regional context of earlier African American speech: Evidence for reconstructing the development of AAVE (2000) (57)
Dialect accommodation in a bi-ethnic mountain enclave community: More evidence on the development of African American English (2002) (54)
Re-Examining Vernacular Black English@@@American Earlier Black English: Morphological and Syntactic Variables@@@The Death of Black English: Divergence and Convergence in Black and White Vernaculars (1990) (49)
Language Ideology and Dialect (1998) (49)
The Role of the Individual and Group in Earlier African American English (2000) (47)
Language Death and Dying (2008) (43)
The grammar of urban African American Vernacular English (2004) (41)
Isolation Within Isolation: A Solitary Century of African‐American Vernacular English (1997) (37)
Dialects at School: Educating Linguistically Diverse Students (2017) (35)
Toxicity--seizures in an infant caused by (or related to) oral viscous lidocaine use. (1992) (35)
Structural variability in phonological development: Final nasals in Vernacular Black English (1989) (35)
Operationalizing Linguistic Gratuity: From Principle to Practice (2008) (35)
Sociolinguistic Alternatives in Teaching Reading to Nonstandard Speakers. (1970) (33)
Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion (2017) (33)
Phonological Analysis: Focus on American English (1984) (32)
The Role of Dialect Interference in Composition. (1971) (32)
Delineation and description in dialectology : The case of perspective I'm in Lumbee English (1996) (30)
Black-White Speech Differences Revisited. (1971) (30)
Dialect change and maintenance in a post-insular island community (1996) (30)
Scrutinizing Linguistic Gratuity: Issues from the Field (1998) (30)
Reexamining the Development of African American English: Evidence from Isolated Communities (2003) (29)
On the Sociolinguistic Significance of Obscure Dialect Structures: The [NP i Call NP i V-Ing] Construction in African-American Vernacular English (1994) (28)
AFRICAN AMERICAN LANGUAGE (2020) (27)
Issues in Reconstructing Earlier African‐American English (2000) (27)
Black-White Speech Relationships (1971) (27)
Ethnicity and Language. (1974) (25)
Language in the USA: Social varieties of American English (2004) (25)
Variation and Language: Overview (2006) (23)
Test interpretation and sociolinguistic differences (1983) (23)
Ethnic identity and grammatical restructuring : Be(s) in Lumbee English (1998) (22)
Extending Urban Sociolinguistic Perspective@@@The Copenhagen Study in Urban Sociolinguistics (1995) (22)
Local and External Language Standards in African American English (2009) (21)
Re-examining Vernacular Black English (2015) (20)
Fieldwork Methods in Language Variation (2011) (19)
Educating the Educated: Language Diversity in the University Backyard (2015) (19)
Sociolinguistic Premises and the Nature of Nonstandard Dialects. (1970) (18)
Sociolinguistic Implications for Educational Sequencing. (1969) (17)
A Proactive Role for Speech-Language Pathologists in Sociolinguistic Education (1993) (17)
American voices : how dialects differ from coast to coast (2006) (16)
Systematic Variability in Second-Language Tense Marking (1989) (14)
Language Differences (1993) (14)
Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina (2014) (14)
Tense Marking in Second Language Learning: Patterns of Spoken and Written English in a Vietnamese Community. (1984) (14)
Bidialectal Literacy in the United States. (1991) (13)
Linguistic Diversity and the Public Interest (2000) (13)
Linguistic Correlates of Social Differences in the Negro Community. (1969) (13)
Chapter 8. African American English (2008) (12)
Dialect in Society (2017) (11)
Contrastive Linguistics and Social Lectology. (1978) (11)
Regionality in the Development of African American English (2015) (11)
Variability in the English of Two Indian Communities and Its Effect on Reading and Writing. (1979) (10)
In the Profession (2012) (10)
Defining ethnic varieties in the Bahamas: Phonological accommodation in black and white enclave communities (2003) (10)
Legacies of Colonial English: Remnant dialects in the coastal United States (2005) (9)
Overlapping Influence in the English of Second Generation Puerto Rican Teenagers in Harlem. Final Report. (1971) (9)
Overlapping Influence and Linguistic Assimilation in Second Generation Puerto Rican English. (1971) (9)
Issues in the Development of African American English (2008) (9)
The Significance of Linguistic Variation in the Speeches of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2016) (9)
On the Utility of Composite Indices in Longitudinal Language Study (2017) (8)
Dynamic Dimensions of Language Influence: The Case of American Indian English (1980) (8)
Interlanguage Variation: A Review Article (1991) (7)
The Importance of Graduate Student Engagement in a Campus Language Diversity Initiative (2018) (7)
Integrating Language Variation into TESOL: Challenges from English Globalization (2014) (7)
The Sociolinguistic Construction of African American Language (2015) (7)
Public sociolinguistic education in the United States (2017) (7)
Symbolic identity and language change: A comparative analysis of post-insular /ay/ and /aw/ (1997) (7)
14. Reconsidering the sociolinguistic agenda for African American English: The next generation of research and application (2001) (6)
Speech pathology and dialect differences (1979) (6)
American English Since 1865 (2009) (6)
Language Variety in the New South: Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation (2018) (5)
Defining ethnic varieties in the Bahamas (2003) (5)
English in the Southern United States: Enclave dialect communities in the South (2003) (5)
Some Illustrative Features of Black English. (1970) (5)
WHEN ISLANDS LOSE DIALECTS The Case of the Ocracoke Brogue (2008) (5)
D. A Linguist Looks At the Ebonics Debate (2005) (5)
Parallel development and alternative restructuring: The case ofweren'tintensification (2003) (5)
The role of dialect differences in cross-cultural communication (1996) (5)
Engagement Through Data Management and Preservation: The North Carolina Language and Life Project and the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project (2016) (5)
The Nature of Nonstandard Dialect Divergence. (1970) (5)
Reading and Dialect Differences (1979) (4)
Linguistics and the Human Capital Initiative. A Report to the National Science Foundation. (1995) (4)
Community Commitment and Responsibility (2013) (4)
Collaborative Issues in Language Variation Documentaries (2010) (4)
Talkin' Tar Heel (2014) (4)
The Sociolinguistic Complexity of Quasi-Isolated Southern Coastal Communities. (1993) (4)
New dialect formation in the rural South: Emerging Hispanic English varieties in the mid-Atlantic (2003) (4)
Southern-Bred Hispanic English: AnEmerging Socioethnic Variety (2011) (4)
A Linguistic Description of Social Dialects. (1974) (4)
The Sociolinguistic Model in Speech and Language Pathology. (1992) (3)
Indigenous Language Students from Spanish-Speaking Countries: Educational Approaches (2011) (3)
Linguistic Assimilation in the Children of Immigrants. (1972) (3)
Endangered Dialects: A Neglected Situation in the Endangerment Canon. (1995) (3)
Isolation within Isolation: The invisible Outer Banks dialect (1996) (3)
Variation and Language, an Overview in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2 Edition (2006) (3)
Changing Ethnolinguistic Perceptions In The South (2018) (3)
The Status Of (ING) in African American Language (2019) (3)
Underlying Representations in Black English Phonology. (1970) (3)
Incorporating Dialect Study into the Language Arts Class. ERIC Digest. (1990) (2)
English as a Contact Language: The contact dynamics of socioethnic varieties in North America (2013) (2)
Linguistic Inequality and Sociolinguistic Justice in Campus Life (2021) (2)
Talking Black in America (2019) (2)
Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora: Evidence from lesser-known varieties of English (2017) (2)
The Sociolinguistic Significance of (2016) (2)
Social Dialects from a Linguistic Perspective: Assumptions, Current Research, and Future Directions. (1969) (2)
The sentence in African-American vernacular English (2021) (2)
Language Awareness in Community Perspective (2013) (2)
An Appraisal of ERIC Documents on the Manner and Extent of Nonstandard Dialect Divergence. (1969) (1)
On the Relationship of Sociolinguistics and Speech Pathology. (1976) (1)
Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English (2008) (1)
Social Stigmatizing and the Linguistic Variable in a Negro Speech Community. (1968) (1)
Old Wine in New Bottles: Understanding the Oakland Ebonics Controversy (1997) (1)
Structural variability in phonological development (1989) (1)
Investigating variation: The effects of social organization and social setting (review) (2012) (1)
Black/White Speech Differences Revisited: A Preliminary Report. (1969) (1)
Extended Notions of Grammar and Reading Comprehension (1976) (1)
SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES ON REGISTER . Douglas Biber & Edward Finegan (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 385. $65.00 cloth. (1995) (1)
Generative Phonology: The Basic Model. (1974) (1)
The (in)significance of facts in sociolinguistic engagement (2018) (1)
The Urban Language Series (1975) (1)
Papers in language variation: SAMLA-ADS collection Edited by David L. Shores and Carole P. Hines (review) (2015) (1)
The linguist in speech pathology (1978) (1)
Reading and Dialect Differences. Dialects and Educational Equity. (1979) (1)
Chapter 14. African American English and the Public Interest (2009) (1)
Lawrence Biondi, The Italian–American child: His sociolinguistic acculturation . Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, Pp. vii + 160. (1977) (1)
African‐American English (2019) (1)
Speaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language (2018) (0)
LSY volume 41 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
LSY volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
Defining the Enclave Dialect Community (2008) (0)
The Linguist in Speech Pathology. Language in Education: Theory and Practice, No. 2. (1978) (0)
Contributors' Column (2003) (0)
Issues of Linguistic Development in Rural Subcultures in the United States (1983) (0)
Implicit Sociolinguistic Bias and Social Justice (2019) (0)
Cisatlantic Phonology@@@Phonological Analysis: Focus on American English (1984) (0)
Parallel development and alternative restructuring (2003) (0)
Rural and ethnic varieties in the Southeast: morphology and syntax (2020) (0)
UNGUISTIC CORRELATES OF SOCIAL DIIITERENCES IN THE NEGRO COMMUNITY (2012) (0)
The Social History of Mainland Hyde County (2008) (0)
On the Relationship of Sociolinguistics and Speech (2011) (0)
LSY volume 41 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
Beyond Hyde County: The Past and Present Development of AAVE (2008) (0)
LSY volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (2013) (0)
LSY volume 42 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2013) (0)
A Note on Fluctuating Vaximming _ the Status of Vernacular Black English (2008) (0)
A Repentant Sceptic Looks at DARE@@@Dictionary of American Regional English, A-C (1986) (0)
The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages: Foreword (2001) (0)
A Note on Fluctuating Variants and the Status of Vernacular Black English. (1973) (0)
Reconstructing the History of AAVE: New Data on an Old Theme (2000) (0)
Language and the institutional diversity canon (2016) (0)
Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English (2008) (0)
AN APPRAISAL OF ERIC DOCUYIENTS ON 1E11 MANNER AND EXTENT OF NONSTANDARD DIALECT DIVERGENCE (2007) (0)
Dialect Differences and Testing. ERIC Digest. (1990) (0)
Why do American Southerners talk that way (2012) (0)
Chapter 19. African American English (2008) (0)
Selected Bibliographies: 1--Textbooks and Readers in Sociolinguistics. (1973) (0)
Within the last several years the teaching of Standard English to (2012) (0)
LSY volume 41 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
Black-White Speech Relationships. Urban Language Series No. 7. (1971) (0)
Variable Linguistic Rules: Theory and/or Method. (1980) (0)
Needed Research on the Englishes of Appalachia (2019) (0)
LSY volume 40 issue 5 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
Bahamian English: phonology (2020) (0)
Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English (2008) (0)
Sociolinguistic Folklor e in the Study of African (2007) (0)
Urban African American Vernacular English: morphology and syntax (2020) (0)
The Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change over the Lifespan (2020) (0)
LSY volume 40 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English (2008) (0)
The Influence of Communicative Context on ESL Students' Writing (2007) (0)
EDITOR'S NOTE (2006) (0)
SOCIOLINGUISTIC PREMISES AND m. NATURE OF NONSTAIraiRD DIALECTS (2007) (0)
The Voices of North Carolina Professional Development Initiative: A New Literacies Approach to Teaching Language Effectively in the Middle Grades (2008) (0)
Dynamic Parameters of Influence: Stylistic Variation during the Early Lifespan (2009) (0)
What is ‘speaking in tongues’? (2012) (0)
Remembering Ron Butters, 1940–2021American Speech and The American Dialect Society (2021) (0)
Are dialects dying (2012) (0)
Felicitas D. Goodman, Speaking in tongues: a cross-cultural study of glossolalia . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972. Pp. xxii + 175. (1974) (0)
Oppositional Identity and Back-Vowel Fronting in a Tri-ethnic Context (2021) (0)
Sociolinguistic variation and the public interest (2021) (0)
Stylistic Variation in the Early AAL Lifespan (2020) (0)
Charles A. Ferguson, Sociolinguistic perspectives: Papers on language in society, 1959–1994. Ed. by Thom Huebner. (Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 348. Hb $75.00, pb $35.00. (1999) (0)
The Editor's Department (2015) (0)
Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English (2008) (0)
SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES ON SP CO . : AND THE " DISADVANTAGED " (2012) (0)
Profiles of Change (2020) (0)
Our Readers Write: What Do You Think Is Significant about the Recent Court Decision Dealing with Black English and the Ann Arbor Public Schools? (1980) (0)

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