Higher up the scale class a person was, they would be more likely to use standard lang. Lower class used: in instead of ing, glottal stopped, h dropping
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Kerswill (2005)
Milton Keynes: working class: double negation, non-standard use of - was, were, don't, come, done, them
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Bernstein (1971): Working class
Working class children were being failed educationally so used: fewer adj's, reliance on pronouns (like it), non-standard syntax
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Bernstein (1971): Middle class
Middle class children were more likely to use more: standard "correct" syntax, subordinate clauses, logical connectives, explicit references (not pronouns) and fewer minor sentences.
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Labov (1962): NY
the higher the social class of a speaker, the more frequent the occurrence of rhotic /r/ in speech
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Milton Keynes: working class: double negation, non-standard use of - was, were, don't, come, done, them
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