Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test ...

A new research collaboration between Harvard University and Oxford University Press aims to compile the first fully-formed dictionary of African... A new dictionary will document the lexicon of ...

Pt. 1. Orientation. Some common misconceptions about African American vernacular English -- Language and race: some implications of bias for linguistic science. Pt. 2. The relevance of African ...

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

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