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In testing, penalizing speakers of vernacular varieties on the basis of dialect differences; for example, in language-acquisition testing, treating the use of a dialect form as evidence that the standard form has not been acquired.

Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
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