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Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
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Dialects, standards, and vernaculars -- Why dialects? -- Levels of dialect -- Dialects in the United States: past, present, and future -- Regional dialects -- Social and ethnic dialects -- African American English -- Gender and language variation -- Dialects and style -- On the applications of dialect study -- Dialect awareness: extending applications