Johnson, David. "Review Essay: Defining Dialect." Rev. of American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast, Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward, eds.; Do You Speak American? By Robert MacNeil and William Cran; and A Teachers' Introduction to African American English: What a Writing Teacher Should Know by Teresa M. Redd and Karen Schuster. CCC 59.3 (2008): 548-556.
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