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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
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2022
Subjects
Linguistics
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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