A Bibliography on -t/d Deletion


    Ash, Sharon.  1982.  The vocalization of /l/ in Philadelphia.  University of Pennsylvania dissertation.

    Fasold, Ralph.  1972.  Tense marking in Black English:  A linguistic and social analysis.  Center for Applied Linguistics:  Arlington, Va.

    Guy, Gregory.  1991.  “Explanation in variable phonology:  An exponential model of morphological constraints.”  Language Variation and Change 3: 1-22.

    Guy, Gregory.  1980.  “Variation in the group and the individual:  The case of final stop deletion.”  Locating language in time and space.  Academic Press:  New York.

    Guy, Gregory and Charles Boberg.  1997.  “Inherent variability and the obligatory contour principle.”  Language Variation and Change 2: 149-164.

    Guy, Gregory and Sally Boyd.  1990.  “The development of a morphological class.”  Language Variation and Change 2: 1-18.

    Labov, William.  1995.  “Resyllabification.”  Proceedings of the international workshop on language variation and linguistic theory.

    Labov, William.  1989.  “The child as linguistic historian.”  Language Variation and Change 1: 85-94.

    Labov, William.  1975.  “The quantitative study of linguistic structure.”  Pennsylvania working papers on linguistic change and variation, vol. 1, no. 3.

    Labov, William and Paul Cohen.  1967.  Systematic relations of standard and non-standard rules in the grammars of Negro speakers.  U.S. Department of Education:  Cambridge, Mass.

    Labov, William et al.  1968.  A study of the non-standard English of Negro and Puerto Rican speakers in New York City, volume 1.  Columbia University:  New York.

    Neu, Helene.  1980.  “Ranking of constraints on /t,d/ deletion in American English:  A statistical analysis.”  Locating language in time and space.  Academic Press:  New York.

    Reynolds, William.  1994.  Variation and phonological theory.  University of Pennsylvania dissertation.

    Roberts, Julie.  1995.  The acquisition of variable rules:  t,d deletion and –ing production in preschool children.  University of Pennsylvania dissertation.

    Romaine, Suzanne.  1984.  “The sociolinguistic history of t/d deletion.”  Folia Linguistica Historica 2: 221-225.

    Wolfram, Walt.  1969.  A sociolinguistic description of Detroit Negro speech.  Center for Applied Linguistics:  Washington, D.C.



    Compiled by Christine Lattin
    Updated 3/28/2001

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