CAL has amassed a bibliography of more than 650 print references relating to AAE. Learn more.
Linguist Peter Patrick’s page on African American English
Do You Speak American? Resources on AAE
University of Pennsylvania linguist William Labov's Web site
The Original Oakland School Board Resolution. December 18, 1996.
Amended Oakland School Board Resolution, January 15, 1997
Resolution by the Linguistic Society of America on "Ebonics". January 3, 1997
CAL Statement to the Media on Ebonics
Language Policy and Public Knowledge by Carolyn Temple Adger, Center for Applied Linguistics. 1997.
A Linguist Looks at the Ebonics Debate by Charles J. Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley. 1997
Charles J. Fillmore's Speech at the American Cultures Center, UC Berkeley, February, 1997
Dialect Education: Not Just for Oakland by Carolyn Temple Adger, Center for Applied Linguistics, ERIC/CLL Newsletter article. 1997.
TESOL's Policy Statement on African American Vernacular English . March 1997.
Ebonics and Linguistic Science: Clarifying the Issues by Walt Wolfram for the National Science Foundation. 1997.
William Labov’s testimony to the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education of the Senate Appropriations Committee. January 1997.
Discussions by linguists about Ebonics on the LinguistList.
John Rickford's Ebonics Page at Stanford University
Return to the African American English page.
