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Walt Wolfram

Walt Wolfram (/ˈwʊlfrəm/ WUUL-frəm; born February 15, 1941) is an American sociolinguist specializing in social and ethnic dialects of American English. He was one of the early pioneers in the study of urban African American English through his work in Detroit in 1969. He is the William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor at North Carolina State…

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Known for
Sociolinguistics Variationist sociolinguistics
Occupation
Professor of English Linguistics
Education
Wheaton College (B.A.) · Hartford Seminary Foundation (M.A.) (Ph.D.)
Born
(1941-02-15) February 15, 1941 (age 85) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Doctoral advisor
Roger Shuy
Institutions
Georgetown University · University of the District of Columbia · Center for Applied Linguistics · North Carolina State University

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Walt Wolfram → Center for Applied Linguistics, Georgetown University, North Carolina State University, University of the District of Columbia
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Walt Wolfram → Hartford Seminary Foundation (M.A.) (Ph.D.), Wheaton College (B.A.)
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Walt Wolfram → (1941-02-15) February 15, 1941 (age 85) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Walt Wolfram → Roger Shuy
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Walt Wolfram → Sociolinguistics Variationist sociolinguistics
Occupation · 1
Walt Wolfram → Professor of English Linguistics
Website · 1
Walt Wolfram → chass.ncsu.edu/people/wolfram/

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