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The English History of African American English by Shana Poplack (Paperback, 1999)

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By Shana Poplack. This reader explores an alternative hypothesis: that the characteristic features were acquired from the varieties of English to which early speakers were exposed. Six variable linguistic features, most previously considered evidence of creole origins, are traced across varieties of English brought to the US by British colonists.