Published Works (selected)
- (Forthcoming). “Not As Clear As Black and White: Race, Class and Language in a Barbados Community,” in Arthur Spears (ed.), Black Language—The United States and the English-speaking Caribbean: Education, History, Structure and Use. Oxford: Blackwell.
- 2010. “Second Generation West Indian Americans and English in New York City,” in English Today 26(3): 35-43 (with Cara Shousterman).
- 2010. “Diachrony and AAE: St. Louis, Hip-Hop and Sound Change Outside of the Mainstream,” Journal of English Linguistics 38(3): 230-247 (with Cara Shousterman).
- 2005. “Speaking Strictly Roots (West Indies),” in Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward (eds.), American Voices. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 172-78.
- 2004. “Bajan Phonology.” In Bernd Kortmann and Edgar W. Schneider (ed.), A Handbook of Varieties of English: Volume 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- 2003b. “African American Vernacular English and Variation in Teachers’ Attitudes: A Question of School Philosophy?” Linguistics and Education 14(2):163-94 (with Cecilia Cutler).
- 2003a. “The /ay/ Diphthong in a Martha's Vineyard Community: What Can We Say 40 Years Later?” (with Meredith Josey). Language in Society 32(4):451-85.
- 1997. “Defining the Envelope of Linguistic Variation: The Case of “Don’t Count” forms in the Copula Analysis of African American Vernacular English.” Language Variation and Change 9(1):57-80.
- 1991. “Rappin on the Copula Coffin: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Copula Variation in African American Vernacular English.” Language Variation and Change 3(1):103-32. (with Rickford, John, Arnetha Ball, Raina Jackson, and Nomi Martin).
- 1990. “Contraction and Deletion of the Copula in Barbadian English.” Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 16). Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 257-68. (with John Rickford).
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