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Explores the pluralization of nouns in the speech of antebellum Augusta, Georgia. Elisha Kane's release of `The Negro Dialects Along the Savannah River' in 1925; Features of black plural formation; Rare occurrence of disyllabic plurals; Roles of suffixing and zeroing; Phonotactic patterns; Zero plural forms as standard.

Examines how people in Augusta, Georgia inflect measure nouns. Speech in the mid-18th century before the introduction of upcountry cotton plantations; Investigation for the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS); Effects of urbanization, caste distinctions, social stratification and mass education.

Discusses the effect of models provided by native speech on morphological processes and inflectional forms of speech in Augusta, Georgia. Description of a phonological process called sandhi; Triggering of sandhi by suffixing of plural `-s'; Social changes that affect Augusta speech; Area's history from the end of the Civil War; Explanation of William Labov's crossover theory.

Investigates the plurals of the words `foot, mouse' and `tooth' in Augusta, Georgia, and examines fifteen different forms of the singular and plural. Anomalous forms' occurrence in black speech; Synchronic and diachronic interpretations; Mass education's effect on Augusta's linguistic values; Interaction of social stratification within the black community.

Examines the formation of plural words using`-en' in Augusta, Georgia at the end of the 18th century. Oral tradition's role in maintaining or wearing down `-n- forms; Cultural and linguistic consequences of the industrial revolution; Enduring influence of the Scotch-Irish substratum; Morphological forms as layered synchronically from class to class; Interaction of phonological and sociolinguistic processes.

Describes the community of Augusta, Georgia and its social history as well as its role in discovering the historical origins of black English. Writing's development as an active model for speech; Linguistic change in the middle of the 19th century; Few localisms as turning up in Augusta's speech; Variety of dialectal features; Transitional nature of the area's speech; City's role in the history of black society.