However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
William LabovI have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.
William LabovIt appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
William Labov