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William Labov, a professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of an early study, The Social Stratification of English in New York (1966), has been arguing for years that, whatever its original sources, the language of poor, urban blacks is becoming ever more divergent from that of other Americans, as de facto racial segregation and social isolation become the permanent lot of a vast subgroup of African Americans.
A notable exception in the United States is William Labov; but, despite his open, readable style, Labov's work is known mainly to academics because it appears in scholarly journals and in books distributed largely to the academic market.