I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

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• William Labov:

  It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the peri

• William Labov:

  An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that

• William Labov:

  And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the

• William Labov:

  However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African

• William Labov:

  This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other diale

• Albert Bandura:

  People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are hea

• Albert Bandura:

  There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on h

• Albert Bandura:

  Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

• Albert Bandura:

  Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience

• Albert Bandura:

  Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find