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AAVE: African American Vernacular English This term serves to place AAVE in the context of the many regional, national, and sociocultural forms of English such as Southern English, British English, Cajun English, and so forth; it also avoids the strong emotions and misunderstandings sometimes associated with the term Ebonics AAVE has been an important topic of discussion among
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 Most prominent among these is the development of African American English during the antebellum period and the trajectory of change in twentieth-century AAVE This book addresses both of these issues by examining an unparalleled sociolinguistic situation involving a long-standing, isolated, biracial community situated in a distinctive dialect
LINGUIST List 25. 2362: Review: Sociolinguistics: Du Bois Baumgarten . . . A Lane Igoudin’s short chapter, ‘Asian American girls who speak African American English: A subcultural language identity’, investigates language use and attitudes among three first-generation Asian-American teenage girls (two Filipino-American and one Cambodian-American) who use African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in their
LINGUIST List 12. 174: Andrews, Linguistics for L2 Teachers The chapter further discusses properties Standard American English (SAE) and African American Vernacular English (AAVE) The author subscribes to the view that AAVE is not a dialect of SAE and that it rather developed from West African languages The chapter outlines some features of AAVE that link it to West African languages
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 20. 1026: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24 1 (2009) AAVE creole copula absence: A critique of the imperfect learning hypothesisDevyani Sharma and John R Rickford 53–90 The phonology of mixed languagesRik van Gijn 91–117 Column Creoles as interlanguages: PhonologyIngo Plag 119–138 Short note
LINGUIST List 21. 3271: General Linguistics: Yule (2010) In addition, the lastpart of the chapter contains a sound but brief look at African American English,in which the author contrasts what he terms 'African American VernacularEnglish' (AAVE) with ''what we might call 'European' American English''' (260)
LINGUIST List 17. 1460: J of Pidgins and Creole Languages 21 1 (2006) Down for the count? The Creole Origins Hypothesis of AAVE at the hands of theOttawa Circle, and their supportersJohn R Rickford 97–155 Children and creole genesisJohn Victor Singler 157–173 Contact languages as "endangered" languages: What is there to lose?Paul B Garrett 175–190 Germanic standardizations: Past to present
LINGUIST List 16. 24: Anth Ling Socioling: Harris Rampton (2003) teenager who uses features of AAVE pronunciation and hip hop vocabulary 25 Les Back (1995) X amount of sat siri akal!: Apache Indian, reggae music and intermezzo culture Back postulates the formation of a culture in which boundaries are transcended, represented by a fusion of South Asian and African Caribbean linguistic elements in music