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Valerie Fridland

Valerie Fridland
Valerie Fridland is a professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She writes a popular language blog on Psychology Today called “Language in the Wild,” and is also a professor for The Great Courses series.


How Lower-Class Innovation, Like, Changes the Langwage

Valerie Fridland on the Linguistics of My Cousin Vinny, the Caste System, and the Queen's English
April 18, 2023  By Valerie Fridland
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