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- AAVE: African American Vernacular English - LINGUIST List
Although many people refer to this variety as "Ebonics", most linguists prefer the term African American English (AAE) or or African American Vernacular English (AAVE)
- LINGUIST List 7. 1048: aks and akst in AAVE
Specialists in AAVE agree that current African Americans who use aks have inherited this as the base form of the verb Some further comments came from Raj Mesthrie at the University of Cape Town: Aks is I believe alive and well in parts of Britain and elsewhere in the world (e g my native dialect of South African Indian English, where it co
- LINGUIST List 13. 821: Socioling, Walt Wolfram Erik R. Thomas
Despite intense scrutiny of the historical and current development of AAVE, a number of issues remain unresolved Most prominent among these is the development of African American English during the antebellum period and the trajectory of change in twentieth-century AAVE
- LINGUIST List 13. 1959: Theta f Variation in Varieties of English
Sample Responses: 'f' passes completely unnoticed among African-Americans in Philly, and among whites and biracial people living in AAVE-speaking communities (All our informants failed the commutation test ) I couldn't say if it's noticed by whites who live in other area communities
- LINGUIST List 23. 3439: Review: Sociolinguistics: Lippi-Green (2011)
Here,Lippi-Green argues that assimilation via accent reduction is commonly perceivedto be the price of success in America (see also Chapters 9 and 12 for example) Similarly, Chapter 10's focus on AAVE (African American Vernacular English), or"Black language" (p 182) argues that the issues surrounding this variety of USEnglish are historically
- LINGUIST List 13. 2343: Historical Linguistics: Wolfram Thomas (2002)
Copula absence is an oft-cited structure in AAVE and Wolfram and Thomas argue that while there may be a number of influences on the historical development of this structure, including a creole predecessor and independent development, it developed exclusively in African American English
- LINGUIST List 13. 357: Wardhaugh, Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Then the author discusses the issue of African American vernacular English (AAVE) In the final section of this chapter Wardhaugh discusses the implications and consequences for education in view of the social disadvantage connected with the restricted code and AAVE
- LINGUIST List 13. 988: Historical Ling: Algeo, ed. (2001)
In chapter 8, "African-American English," Salikoko S Mufwene reviews the major scholarship on African-American English (AAE) and African- American Vernacular English (AAVE)
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