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• Ebonics
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• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)
• Jamaica Anansi stories (American Folk-lore Society, 1924), by Martha Warren Beckwith, Helen H. Roberts, and Alexander Street Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the structure of the verb in a dialect of American Negro English. ([Columbia, Mo.], 1967), by Marvin D. Loflin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goldin stairs (Press of the Dietz printing co., 1923), by Robert Armistead Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Befo' de war : echoes in Negro dialect (Scribner, 1888), by Armistead C. Gordon and Thomas Nelson Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro dialect recitations : comprising a series of the most popular selections in prose and verse (Eldridge Entertainment House, 1887), by George Melville Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Befo' de war. Echoes in Negro dialect. (Scribner's, 1895), by Armistead C. Gordon and Thomas Nelson Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• My village home. ([Sun Stream Print.], 1885), by William Lightfoot Visscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black language in America (Wichita State University, 1973), by William J. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bahama songs and stories. A contribution to folk-lore (G.E. Steckert, 1942), by Charles Lincoln Edwards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dialect recitations (Knoxville, Tenn. : Knoxville College Press, 1913., 1913), by William Green Wilson and Knoxville College Press (page images at HathiTrust)

• Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles, by Ruth McEnery Stuart, illust. by G. H. Clements (Gutenberg ebook)

• Nigger heaven. (Knopf, 1926), by Carl Van Vechten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The black border : Gullah stories of the Carolina coast (with a glossary), by Ambrose Elliott Gonzalez (Gutenberg ebook)

• Ebonics : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, special hearing. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1997), by Health and Human Services United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Befo' de war; echoes in Negro dialect (C. Scribner's Sons, 1888), by Armistead C. Gordon, William Randolph Hearst, and Thomas Nelson Page (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gullah; dedicated to the memory of Ambrose E. Gonzales (Bureau of Publications, University of South Carolina, 1926), by Reed Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• A bibliography (with some annotations) on the creole languages of the Caribbean : including a special supplement on Gullah (Department of Afro-American Studies, The University of Wisconsin, 1972), by Roberto Nodal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• An analysis of the variations from standard English pronunciation in the phonetic performance of two groups of nonstandard-English-speaking children : final report (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, Bureau of Research, 1971), by Frederick Williams and University of Texas at Austin. Center for Communication Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ebonics : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, special hearing. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1997), by Health and Human Services United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (second edition; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921), by H. L. Mencken (HTML at Bartleby)
• The American language; an inquiry into the development of English in the United States (A. A. Knopf, 1921), by H. L. Mencken (page images at HathiTrust)
• The study of American English. ([n.p.], 1896), by George Hempl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English language in America (The Century Co., for the Modern Language Association of America, 1925), by George Philip Krapp and Modern Language Association of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American language; an inquiry into the development of English in the United States (A.A. Knopf, 1923), by H. L. Mencken (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American language; an inquiry into the development of English in the United States. Supplement I-II. (A.A. Knopf, 1945), by H. L. Mencken (page images at HathiTrust)
• American pronunciation (G. Wahr Pub. Co., 1956), by John Samuel Kenyon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bituminous coal mining vocabulary of the Eastern United States : a pilot study in the collecting of geographically distributed occupational vocabulary (1969), by Dennis Richard Preston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Providing for the consideration of H.R. 3892, the English Language Fluency Act : report (to accompany H. Res. 516). (U.S. G.P.O., 1998), by United States House Committee on Rules (page images at HathiTrust)
• English language constitutional amendments : hearing before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session on H.J. Res. 13, H.J. Res. 33, H.J. Res. 60, and H.J. Res. 83 ... May 11, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1989), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pronunciation of standard English in America. (AMS Press, 1969), by George Philip Krapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First book in American English (Oxford Book Co., 1962), by Gladys E. Alesi and Dora F. Pantell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Assessing language development in bilingual preschool children (National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, 1995), by Barry McLaughlin, Yuka Osanai, Antoinette Gesi Blanchard, George Washington University. Center for Policy Studies, United States. Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, and National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue des manuscrits et des imprimés en langues sauvages ainsi que des reliques indiennes, exposés à Québec à l'occasion du XVe Congrès international des Américanistes, Sept. 1906. (Dussault & Proulx, 1906), by International Congress of Americanists (15th : 1906 : Quebec) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Particular to the United States (New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1848), by John Russell Bartlett (HTML and Epub at merrycoz.org)
• The Palmetto Dictionary: In Which the Meaning of Every Word is Clearly Explained and the Sound of Every Syllable Distinctly Shown; Exhibiting the Principles of a Pure and Correct Pronunciation (new edition; Richmond, VA: J.W. Randolph, 1864), by John Walker
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• A dictionary of American English on historical principles (University of Chicago Press, 1938), by William A. Craigie and James R. Hulbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americanisms - old & new : a dictionary of words, phrases and colloquialisms peculiar to the United States, British America, the West Indies, etc. etc., their derivation, meaning and application, together with numerous anecdotal, historical, explanatory, and folk-lore notes (Gryphon Books, 1971), by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An American dictionary of the English language; exhibiting the origin, orthography, pronunciation, and definitions of words. (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1867), by Noah Webster and Chauncey A. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• An American pronouncing dictionary of the English language ... (Crissy & Markley [etc., 1859), by Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• An American dictionary of the English language ... (Harper & brothers, 1853), by Noah Webster, Chauncey A. Goodrich, and John Walkers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New-York expositor (S. Wood and sons;, 1822), by Richard Wiggins and John Griscom (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New-York expositor (S. S. & W. Wood, 1842), by Richard Wiggins and John Griscom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of Americanisms : a glossary of words and phrases usually regarded as peculiar to the United States (Little, Brown and Co., 1896), by John Russell Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Interpretive acts : cognition and the construction of discourse (University of California, Center for the Study of Writing ;, 1987), by Linda Flower (page images at HathiTrust)

• Word book (Voice of America, 2007), by Voice of America (Organization) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A graded west Armenian reader; selections from Armenian literature. (American Council of Learned Societies, 1963), by James Etmekjian and American Council of Learned Societies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Distancing English: A Chapter in the History of the Inexpressible (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Page Richards (PDF at Ohio State)
• The English language in America (The Century Co., for the Modern Language Association of America, 1925), by George Philip Krapp and Modern Language Association of America (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook of the linguistic geography of New England (American Council of Learned Societies, 1954), by Hans Kurath (page images at HathiTrust)

• An analysis of the variations from standard English pronunciation in the phonetic performance of two groups of nonstandard-English-speaking children : final report (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, Bureau of Research, 1971), by Frederick Williams and University of Texas at Austin. Center for Communication Research (page images at HathiTrust)

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