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Renée Blake
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Associate Professor of Linguistics, Social and Cultural Analysis
Ph.D. 1997 (linguistics), M.A. 1993 (linguistics), B.SC. 1987 (biology), Stanford.

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Research Interests:

Urban sociolinguistics; African American Vernacular English; languages and cultures of the Caribbean.

Affiliations:

Linguistic Society of America Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics, 1995-1997.

Fellowships/Honors:

Dorothy Danforth Compton Dissertation Grant, 1995; Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 1994; Stanford Humanities Center Predoctoral Resident Fellowship, 1994; Fulbright Grant, University of the West Indies, Barbados, 1992; National Science Foundation Graduate Research Grant, 1991-1994.

Selected Works:

"Barbadian Creole English: Insights into Class and Race Identity," Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (forthcoming 1996);

"Resolving the Don't Count Cases in the Quantitative Analyses of the Copula in African American Vernacular English," Language Variation and Change (forthcoming 1996);

"Rappin' on the Copula Coffin: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Copula Variation in African American Vernacular English," with J. Rickford, A. Ball, R. Jackson, and N. Martin, Language Variation and Change 3 (1991): 103-32;

"Contraction and Deletion of the Copula in Barbadian English," with John Rickford, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 16 (1990): 257-68.

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