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Professor John R. Rickford FBA

Theoretical and descriptive aspects of variation and change in Caribbean Anglophone creoles and American vernaculars, especially African American English, and their implications for educational reform and criminal justice

Elected 2022

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Fellow type
Corresponding Fellow
Year elected
2022
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
http://johnrickford.com/

Current post

Stanford University J E Wallace Sterling Emeritus Professor of the Humanities

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