Linguistics
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The Sprawl of Y’all
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Storyteller Cadwell Turnbull Captures Readers with Debut Novel
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Walt Wolfram Accepted Into American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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6 Expressions Say it All: Language Variation in the Tar Heel State
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How Memes Use Humor to Discredit African-American English
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Dialects Aren’t ‘Bad English’ — They’re Patterns
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Constructing Identity Among Italians at NC State
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Comparing Language in the Yucatan
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Language, Gender and Disney Princesses
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