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The testimony harkened back to research contained in his groundbreaking bookLanguage in the Inner City, originally published in 1972. Studying not only the normal processes of communication in the inner city but such art forms as the ritual insult and ritualized narrative, Labov confirms the Black vernacular as a separate and independent dialect of English.
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