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Arifin, Jose Aramando, and Ienneke Indra Dewi. "Lexicogrammatical Analysis on African-American Vernacular English Spoken by African-Amecian You-Tubers." E3S Web of Conferences 426 (2023): 01055. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202342601055.

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African American Vernacular English (AAVE) emerged from the historical context of African American enslavement and represents one of the numerous vernacular languages influenced by English. Today, AAVE is commonly used by African-Americans and non-African-Americans in various media platforms. This research aims to investigate the differences and similarities between AAVE spoken by African American and non-African-American YouTubers in terms of lexicogrammatical features. Additionally, it aims to know the perspectives of Indonesian learners regarding the interpretation and preference of AAVE. T

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Hibbert, Liesel. "English in South Africa: parallels with African American vernacular English." English Today 18, no. 1 (2002): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078402001037.

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A comparison between Black English usage in South Africa and the United StatesThere has been a long tradition of resistance in South African politics, as there has been for African-Americans in the United States. The historical links between African Americans and their counterparts on the African continent prompt one to draw a comparison between the groups in terms of linguistic and social status. This comparison demonstrates that Black South African English (BSAfE) is a distinctive form with its own stable conventions, as representative in its own context as African American Vernacular Englis

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Nabiilah, Syarafina, and Alamsyah Alamsyah. "African American Vernacular English in Dumbo (1941) Film." Jurnal Riseta Soshum 2, no. 1 (2025): 18–23. https://doi.org/10.70392/jrs.v2i1.1823.

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This study aims to explore the popular English dialect which originated from the black people known as AAVE (African American Vernacular English), where its usage is not limited to the origin community only. Two focuses of this study will be on analysing the grammatical characteristics of AAVE and its underlying factors within the utterances from the three characters in Dumbo film, which are Timothy the mouse, the crow, and the clown by using qualitative method and the theory on AAVE dialect by Walt Wolfram and Rickford. This study applied the qualitative method and the data was gathered from

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Charity, Anne H. "Regional differences in low SES African-American children's speech in the school setting." Language Variation and Change 19, no. 3 (2007): 281–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394507000129.

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AbstractComprehensive investigations of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) have demonstrated that most features of AAVE reported in the sociolinguistic literature are consistently seen in nearly every African-American speech community in which vernacular speech has been documented. This article highlights quantitative regional differences in the speech produced by African-American children from three U.S. cities in an academic setting. In this analysis, 157 5- to 8-year-old African-American children in New Orleans, LA, Washington, DC, and Cleveland, OH imitated the sentences of a story

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Lee, Jamie Shinhee. "Globalization of African American Vernacular English in popular culture." English World-Wide 32, no. 1 (2011): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.32.1.01lee.

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This study examines crossing (Bucholtz 1999; Cutler 1999; Rampton 1995) in Korean hip hop Blinglish as a case study of globalization of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in popular culture. Blinglish in Korean hip hop can be understood as a prime example of “English from below” (Preisler 1999) to informally express subcultural identity and style. The findings of the study suggest that AAVE features appear at different linguistic levels including lexis, phonology, and morpho-syntax in Korean hip hop Blinglish but do not demonstrate the same degree of AAVE penetration, with a frequency-

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Rickford, John R., Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, et al. "Neighborhood effects on use of African-American Vernacular English." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 38 (2015): 11817–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1500176112.

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African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is systematic, rooted in history, and important as an identity marker and expressive resource for its speakers. In these respects, it resembles other vernacular or nonstandard varieties, like Cockney or Appalachian English. But like them, AAVE can trigger discrimination in the workplace, housing market, and schools. Understanding what shapes the relative use of AAVE vs. Standard American English (SAE) is important for policy and scientific reasons. This work presents, to our knowledge, the first experimental estimates of the effects of moving into low

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Rio Raka Fatra and Anit Pranita Devi. "Grammatical Features of African American Vernacular English In King of Killbranch Album." Modality Journal: International Journal of Linguistics and Literature 4, no. 1 (2024): 32–44. https://doi.org/10.30983/mj.v4i1.8375.

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This research aimed to identify and analyze the grammatical features of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) used in King Of Killbranch album by BIG30. This research also aimed to identify the most dominant grammatical feature of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) used in King Of Killbranch album. A case study method was applied to this research. The grammatical features of AAVE were analyzed based on the theories proposed by Wolfram (2004). The data analysis procedures included reading the song lyrics, sorting and identifying song lyrics that contain AAVE grammatical features, a

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Weldon, Tracey. "Variability in negation in African American Vernacular English." Language Variation and Change 6, no. 3 (1994): 359–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394500001721.

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ABSTRACTFor quantitative sociolinguists, one of the goals of investigating variability in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is to understand better the nature of the grammar. Specifically, researchers have been interested in whether the variation observed in AAVE is inherent to a single system or the result of interaction between two separate systems of AAVE and Standard English (SE). Variability in negation is an area of the AAVE grammar that has received minimal attention, but one that may offer some interesting insights into the nature of the system or systems at work. This article

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Watts, Akiah. "Attitudinal Judgments of Dialect Traits and Colorism in African Americans." Lifespans and Styles 7, no. 2 (2021): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ls.v7i2.2021.6637.

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This study demonstrates how language and complexion influence professional and social perceptions of African Americans. This study contains an online verbal-guise survey where participants either saw a photo of a lighter skin-toned African-American male and female or an electronically darkened version. Audio was attached to each photo, which contains traits of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the case of the male and Standard American English for the female. The results suggest African-American females are more likely to experience colorism in professional traits while African-Ame

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Craig, Collin. "Courting the Abject: A Taxonomy of Black Queer Rhetoric." College English 79, no. 6 (2017): 619–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ce201729160.

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This essay explores how Black LGBTQ students use writing to translate and transmit African American vernacular language codes in their everyday lives. Through documenting how students experience and interpret homophobia through the prism of African American vernacular English (AAVE), I demonstrate how some use language and literacy practices to critique and perform dominant gender behaviors reflected in their community. I theorize a Black queer rhetoric as a framework for understanding and nuancing the discursive limits of African American vernacular English

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Baugh, John. "Shanna Poplack (ed.), The English history of African American English. (Language in Society, 28.) Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Pp. v + 277. Pb $31.95." Language in Society 30, no. 2 (2001): 311–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404501352053.

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Poplack and other contributors to this important volume are to be commended for an exceptionally well crafted book, with a succession of groundbreaking studies of African American English (AAE). Although this work will undoubtedly add fuel to the flames of historical linguistic controversy that continue to swirl around African Americans, Poplack and her colleagues go far to advance hypotheses and analyses that argue in favor of the English origins of African American Vernacular English (AAVE).

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McWhorter, John. "Revisiting Invariant am in Early African American Vernacular English." American Speech 95, no. 4 (2020): 379–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-8661842.

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Scholars of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) have generally assumed that the invariant am typical of minstrel depictions of Black speech was a fabrication, used neither by modern nor earlier Black Americans. However, the frequency with which invariant am occurs in renditions of interviews with ex-slave speech has always lent a certain uncertainty here, despite claims that these must have been distortions introduced by the interviewers. The author argues that the use of invariant am in a great many literary sources written by Black writers with sober intention, grammatical description

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Pangestika, Nindya, and Supeno Supeno. "AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH (AAVE) AND THE AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE 1960’S IN THE HELP NOVEL BY KATHRYN STOCKETT." INFERENCE: Journal of English Language Teaching 5, no. 3 (2023): 228. http://dx.doi.org/10.30998/inference.v5i3.10795.

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<p>The aim of this research is to analyze how the African American Vernacular English is applied by the characters and to identify how American society in the 1960’s was portrayed in The Help novel. Using the descriptive qualitative research as a method, this researcher attempts to reveal the characteristics of African American Vernacular English as a language used by the characters in their daily life and American society back in the 1960’s. In identifying the data, theory from Wolfram (2004) about AAVE characteristics and Kurtz (2003) about America’s society in the 1960’s is used. The

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MALLINSON, CHRISTINE, and WALT WOLFRAM. "Dialect accommodation in a bi-ethnic mountain enclave community: More evidence on the development of African American English." Language in Society 31, no. 5 (2002): 743–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404502315021.

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The investigation of isolated African American enclave communities has been instrumental in reformulating the historical reconstruction of earlier African American English and the current trajectory of language change in African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This case study examines a unique enclave sociolinguistic situation – a small, long-term, isolated bi-ethnic enclave community in the mountains of western North Carolina – to further understanding of the role of localized dialect accommodation and ethnolinguistic distinctiveness in the historical development of African American Engli

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Aryani, Intan Tia Ajeng. "African American Vernacular English (AAVE) Used by Rich Brian: A Sociolinguistic Investigation." Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature 15, no. 1 (2020): 67–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/lc.v15i1.25965.

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The author investigated the use of AAVE by Brian Imanuel or Rich Brian in his rap song lyrics. This study aimed to identify the grammatical features of AAVE in Brian's Amen album. Further, this study was also explored the underlying effect on Brian's use of AAVE. This study applied a descriptive-qualitative method. The context of the data in this study was song lyrics. The results are as follows: Brian rap song lyrics' contained 7 out of AAVE's 13 grammatical features. Those are copula absence, invariant be, completive done, specialized auxiliaries, negation, nominal, and ain't. The causal eff

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Marusenko, M. A., and N. M. Marusenko. "The Theme of Immigration and Non-Standard Variants of English in American Electoral Discourse." USA & Canada Economics – Politics – Culture, no. 6 (December 15, 2024): 64–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s2686673024060056.

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The article analyzes the electoral discourse on immigration of the last three U.S. presidents (B. Obama, D. Trump, and J. Biden) using non-standard variants of American Standard English, such as African American Vernacular English (AAVE or Ebonix) and Chicano English (ChE). The analysis shows that all candidates have to take into account the social and speech practices of their constituencies. Democratic candidates (Obama and Biden) appeal to the linguistic identity of African-Americans and Hispanics, while Trump, whose core constituency is white Americans, demonstrates hatred towards immigran

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WOLFRAM, WALT, ERIK R. THOMAS, and ELAINE W. GREEN. "The regional context of earlier African American speech: Evidence for reconstructing the development of AAVE." Language in Society 29, no. 3 (2000): 315–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500003018.

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Despite extensive research over the past four decades, a number of issues concerning the historical and current development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) remain unresolved. This study utilizes a unique sociolinguistic situation – a long-standing, isolated, biracial community situated in a distinctive dialect region of coastal North Carolina – to address questions of localized dialect accommodation and ethnolinguistic distinctiveness in earlier African American English. A comparison of diagnostic phonological and morphosyntactic variables for a sample of four different generatio

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Montgomery, Michael, Janet M. Fuller, and Sharon DeMarse. "“The black men has wives and Sweet harts [and third person plural -s] Jest like the white men”: Evidence for verbal -s from written documents on 19th-century African American speech." Language Variation and Change 5, no. 3 (1993): 335–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394500001538.

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ABSTRACTThe analysis of letters written by 19th-century African Americans shows constraints on verbal -s marking which parallel those found in the writing of Scotch-Irish immigrants in the same time period and region, specifically a subject type constraint and a proximity to subject constraint. This correlation is highly suggestive for the study of the development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This study finds no support for a basis from a creole or from Standard English for AAVE in verbal concord and concludes that some, perhaps many, African Americans used varieties of Engli

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Slomanson, Peter, and Michael Newman. "Peer group identification and variation in New York Latino English laterals." English World-Wide 25, no. 2 (2004): 199–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.25.2.03slo.

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Following recent work showing that adolescent peer culture affiliation correlates with phonological variation, our research explores the effect of peer identities and national heritages on the English of Latino students in a New York City high school. Data were gathered in sociolinguistic interviews embedded in a two-year ethnography. The peer groups investigated for Spanish-English contact effects include Hip-Hoppers, Skaters, Geeks, and non-participants in high school peer cultures. Our data show that New York Latino English (NYLE) is distinct from both African American Vernacular English (A

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Winford, Donald. "On the Origins of African American Vernacular English — A Creolist Perspective." Diachronica 14, no. 2 (1997): 305–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.14.2.05win.

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SUMMARY This article is the first of a two-part study of the origins of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). It examines the sociohistorical background to the emergence of AAVE with a view to establishing that this variety resulted initially from a process of language shift by African-Americans toward the white settler dialects of the colonial south during the 17th to 18th centuries. These dialects included southern and southwestern regional English, Northern English and Northern Hiberno English, especially Ulster Scots. Varieties of English spoken by earlier African-Americans in turn b

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King, Sharese. "From African American Vernacular English to African American Language: Rethinking the Study of Race and Language in African Americans’ Speech." Annual Review of Linguistics 6, no. 1 (2020): 285–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030556.

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African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the most studied dialects in American English, has undergone several changes in its label across the years. Its most recent designation, African American Language (AAL), reflects a change in approaches to studying race and language in the field. Drawing on observations from related fields like linguistic anthropology and critical race theory, I discuss different conceptualizations of the relationship between race and language and argue in favor of an approach that both recognizes and prioritizes the study of variation within the dialect. This

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Yang, James H. "John R. Rickford, African American Vernacular English: Features, evolution, educational implications. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999. Pp. xxviii, 399." Language in Society 32, no. 1 (2002): 122–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404503261054.

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This book primarily addresses the following questions:(a) What are the features of African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and how is it used?(b) What is its evolution and where is it headed?(c) What are its educational implications?

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Hackert, Stephanie, and Magnus Huber. "Gullah in the diaspora." Diachronica 24, no. 2 (2007): 279–325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.24.2.04hac.

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The status of Gullah and Bahamian Creole English (BahCE) within the Atlantic English creoles and their historical relationship with African American Vernacular English (AAVE) have long been a matter of discussion. It was assumed that Gullah and BahCE are ‘sister’ varieties sharing an immediate ancestor in the eighteenth-century creole English spoken on plantations in the American South. We present historical and linguistic data, including a statistical analysis of 253 phonological, lexical, and grammatical features found in eight Atlantic English creoles, to show that Gullah and BahCE are inde

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Arijie Balqiis Suryanjani, Ujang Suyatman, and Irman Nurhapitudin. "Grammatical Differences Between African American Vernacular English (AAVE) And Standard English (SE) in Black English Vocabulary by Teacher Rodrigo Honorato Youtube Video." IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature 12, no. 2 (2025): 2175–88. https://doi.org/10.24256/ideas.v12i2.5885.

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This research examines the grammatical differences and characteristics of grammatical between African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and Standard English (SE). This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The researcher collected data by selecting 10 videos from the Black English vocabolary playlist, in Teacher Rodrigo Honorato's youtube account. The data obtained will be collected and then analyzed based on grammatical differences and grammatical characteristics. The results of this study show that there are many differences between AAVE and SE languages including in grammatical

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Poplack, Shana, and Sali Tagliamonte. "African American English in the diaspora: Evidence from old-line Nova Scotians." Language Variation and Change 3, no. 3 (1991): 301–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394500000594.

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ABSTRACTIn this article, we describe a new research project on African Nova Scotian English (ANSE), a variety spoken by descendants of African American slaves who immigrated to Nova Scotia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Subsequent segregation from surrounding populations has created a situation favoring retention of the vernacular, in conjunction with Standard English. In addition to providing the first systematic linguistic documentation of ANSE, we detail the characteristics of the Canadian scenario that make it an ideal test of the creole-origins and divergence hypotheses: in pa

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Currie, Emma Margaret. "Debate Surrounding Black Linguistics." Groundings Undergraduate 13 (April 1, 2022): 40–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.36399/groundingsug.13.151.

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This paper provides an assessment of the origins and growth of African American Vernacular English. It presents background on AAVE by discussing its users and its cultural role in the Black community and explores the two main theories in the debate surrounding the subsequent development of the vernacular, with focus on specific linguistic evidence relating to the variable copula absence.

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Jones, Taylor, and Christopher Hall. "Grammatical Reanalysis and the Multiple N-Words in African American English." American Speech 94, no. 4 (2019): 478–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-7611213.

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African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is developing a class of previously undescribed function words, facilitated by the semantic generalization of the word nigga. The authors demonstrate that nigga is unspecified for race, gender, or humanness. They argue that there are multiple n-words, fulfilling different grammatical and social functions. Using a variety of sources, they show that there are new pronouns in AAVE based on nigga—moreover, they pattern with pronouns, not imposters, with respect to binding, agreement, and theta-role assignment. Vocatives and honorics are also explored. The

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Rios, Anthony. "FuzzE: Fuzzy Fairness Evaluation of Offensive Language Classifiers on African-American English." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 34, no. 01 (2020): 881–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i01.5434.

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Hate speech and offensive language are rampant on social media. Machine learning has provided a way to moderate foul language at scale. However, much of the current research focuses on overall performance. Models may perform poorly on text written in a minority dialectal language. For instance, a hate speech classifier may produce more false positives on tweets written in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). To measure these problems, we need text written in both AAVE and Standard American English (SAE). Unfortunately, it is challenging to curate data for all linguistic styles in a time

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Kazakova, Marifat, and Shohista Abduhamidova. "Study of The Phonological and Structural Aspects of American Dialects." Academicia Globe: Inderscience Research 2, no. 1 (2025): 5. https://doi.org/10.47134/academicia.v2i1.16.

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This study investigates the phonological and structural characteristics of American English dialects, with a focus on regional variations such as Southern English, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and the Northern Cities Shift. The research aims to analyze how historical, social, and cultural factors influence dialectal differences. Using linguistic analysis and comparative studies, the findings reveal significant shifts in vowel pronunciation, consonant usage, and syntactic structures. The study contributes to understanding dialect evolution and its impact on identity and communica

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Suman, Manjri. "A Comparative Study of the Linguistic and Other Prejudices in the Selected Works of Margaret Mitchell and Margaret Walker." Indian Journal of Language and Linguistics 5, no. 4 (2024): 41–52. https://doi.org/10.54392/ijll2445.

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In this paper, we talk about the representation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in literary works. Up till the early nineteenth century AAVE was represented by non-native speakers, who were mostly white authors (Minnick, 2004). The approach of these authors towards the dialect is claimed to be derogatory. The linguistic prejudice against AAVE was a result of the social prestige attached not with the language variety but with its speakers, who had their origins in slavery. It was after Harlem Renaissance, when the African American writers started representing themselves that peopl

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Cukor-Avila, Patricia. "Some structural consequences of diffusion." Language in Society 41, no. 5 (2012): 615–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004740451200067x.

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AbstractThis study investigates the diffusion and structural adaptation of quotative be like into a rural African American speech community. The data come from a longitudinal corpus of recordings (1988–2010) with rural African American Vernacular English (AAVE) speakers born between 1894–2002. Previous research suggests other innovative AAVE features have diffused into this community from neighboring urban areas (Cukor-Avila 1995, 2001; Cukor-Avila & Bailey 1995b, 1996) approximately a generation after they appear in urban varieties. The present analysis supports Cukor-Avila (2002) that be

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Lessa, Adriana, and Lucas Costa. "“Black is king”: lenguaje e identidad en el uso de AAVE por Beyoncé." Fórum Linguístico 20, no. 4 (2024): 9815–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2023.e91220.

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This paper aims to understand the correlation between language and discourse identity for Black women through an analysis of Beyoncé’s lyrics across time. Its specific goal is to investigate the occurrence of code-switching between Standard English (SE) and African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the singer's lyrics within different music domains. So, we analyzed the frequency of five AAVE syntactic structures in different music genres - hip hop and rap - in distinct phases of her career. The results show an overall decrease of SE forms and an increase in the use of AAVE forms, though th

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Laing, Sandra P. "Assessment of Phonology in Preschool African American Vernacular English Speakers Using an Alternate Response Mode." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 12, no. 3 (2003): 273–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1058-0360(2003/073).

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether an adapted stimulus elicitation format would reduce the amount of final consonant absence in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) speakers and to determine the extent to which the adapted and standard response formats would differ in their predictions of membership in a delayed and a typical group. Findings revealed that the alternate response mode resulted in statistically significant decreases in the use of final consonant absence and that it was less likely than the standard response mode to penalize the AAVE speaker to a degree that

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Sharma, Devyani, and John R. Rickford. "AAVE/creole copula absence." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24, no. 1 (2009): 53–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.24.1.03sha.

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This study confirms the robustness of the finding in the literature on African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and creole English (especially in the Caribbean) that omission of copular and auxiliary be varies systematically according to predicate type. Verbal predicates are associated with the highest rates of copula absence and following NPs with the lowest rates; following adjectives or locatives show intermediate rates (see Rickford 1998:190). Although this pattern is highly consistent, convincing explanations for it remain elusive. A recurrent suggestion (McWhorter 2000; Winford 1998, 2

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Guy, Gregory R., and Cecelia Cutler. "Speech style and authenticity: Quantitative evidence for the performance of identity." Language Variation and Change 23, no. 1 (2011): 139–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394510000232.

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AbstractThe question of what constitutes an authentic speaker, particularly with regard to African American Vernacular English (AAVE), has been the subject of some debate in sociolinguistics (Butters, 1984; Labov, 1980; Sweetland, 2002) and arises anew in the case of white hip-hop–affiliated youth (WHHs) who converge toward AAVE in their speech. This paper takes a quantitative approach to this question by examining how speech style alters the relationship between the frequencies of a variable in different linguistic environments. Guy (1991b) showed that the exponential relationship in English

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Willie U. Willie. "Copula Contraction and Deletion among African American Vernacular English* (AAVE) Speakers." Cross-Cultural Studies 36, no. ll (2014): 211–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.21049/ccs.2014.36..211.

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Winford, Donald. "On The Origins of African American Vernacular English — A Creolist Perspective." Diachronica 15, no. 1 (1998): 99–154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.15.1.05win.

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SUMMARY In this second part of a two-part study of the origins of African American Vernacular English (AAVE), specific structural features of this dialect are examined and the argument is made that they arose via a process of language shift by Africans toward the white settler dialects of the southern American colonies in the 17th through 19th centuries. Essentially, the author agrees with dialec-tologists that AAVE was never itself a creole, but rather the result of partially successful acquistion of settler dialects by Africans who restructured the target in various ways. On the whole, three

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Cohen Minnick, Lisa. "Jim's language and the issue of race in Huckleberry Finn." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 10, no. 2 (2001): 111–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963-9470-20011002-02.

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While many critics have considered how Jim is represented in Huckleberry Finn, few have approached the question of how he is characterized via an examination of his speech. This article looks specifically at phonological and grammatical features of Jim's speech to determine whether or not they correspond substantially to features of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) documented by leading scholars. Using the LinguaLinks software program, it was possible to analyze Jim's speech in its entirety to the point where conclusions about characterization based on his language can conscientiousl

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Denny, Stacy. "Looking back while moving Forward: When teacher Attitudes Belie Teacher Motive in Bidialectal Classrooms." International Journal of Learning and Development 2, no. 5 (2012): 289. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijld.v2i5.2569.

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Abstract: This study compares and contrasts the language attitudes of teachers of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and West Indian Creole English (CE) speakers over the last fifty years, to determine if there have been any significant changes, to draw out the implications of these findings and offer reasons for the results. Teachers’ attitudes towards these languages were generally negative over the decades, but I noticed that as the number of teachers of colour increased in the USA, there was a slight shift in attitude towards AAVE in a positive direction. I conclude that though lan

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Burkette, Allison. "The use of literary dialect in Uncle Tom's Cabin." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 10, no. 2 (2001): 158–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963-9470-20011002-03.

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This article explores Stowe's use of dialect in her controversial novel. Though some critics have mentioned the 'colorful language' of Stowe's characters, most debates about Uncle Tom's Cabin have not centered on the dialect representation in the speech of her characters. This article provides an objective analysis of Stowe's use of literary dialect in the speech of three characters (Aunt Chloe, George and Mr Haley) using the methods of quantitative linguistics. The frequency of occurrence of linguistic features and the distribution of non-standard features among Stowe's characters demonstrate

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Godfrey, Elizabeth, and Sali Tagliamonte. "Another piece for the verbal -s story: Evidence from Devon in southwest England." Language Variation and Change 11, no. 1 (1999): 87–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394599111050.

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This article aims to contribute (1) new data on verbal -s by systematically examining its behavior in Devon English (DE), a variety spoken in southwest England, and (2) a broader historical and cross-dialectal perspective for understanding the origin and function of verbal -s in nonstandard varieties of English in North America. We focus on the linguistic contexts of its occurrence from the diachronic and synchronic literature. The results show that verbal -s is conditioned by phonological, syntactic, semantic, and lexical factors. These include the few variable constraints on verbal -s attest

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Rickford, John Russell. "How I Fell in Love with Language, Linguistics, and “Activist Sociolinguistics”: An Autobiographical Essay." Annual Review of Linguistics 11, no. 1 (2025): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030421-061803.

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My autobiographical essay begins with a brief section on my high school experience, then goes into more substantive detail about my research and publications over the past 55 years at the universities I attended (University of California, Santa Cruz; University of Pennsylvania) or at which I worked (University of Guyana, Stanford University) and since I retired in 2019. I mention my key mentors and influencers, including Roger Keesing, J. Herman Blake, Robert Le Page, and William Labov. And I identify some of the foci of my research over the years, including vowel laxing in Guyanese personal p

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Santoso, Doni Anggoro Ari. "The Translation Result Evaluation Of Non-Standard English Simple Sentences (African American Vernacular English) Into Indonesian In The Novel Entitled The Help By Kathryn Stockett." Scope : Journal of English Language Teaching 3, no. 1 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.30998/scope.v3i1.2994.

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<p align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>This research is an overall view over translation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) especially simple sentences in the novel The Help by an American author Kathryn Stockett and in the translation by Barokah Ruziati. The writer chooses this topic and the novel as main sources that are analyzed because she realizes that the use of Non-Standard English particularly AAVE is rarely used in writing novels in general.</p><p>The objectives of this research are: (1) to analyze the translation of simpl

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Olivo, Warren. "Phat Lines." Written Language and Literacy 4, no. 1 (2001): 67–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/wll.4.1.05oli.

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This paper focuses on the spelling conventions used in a corpus of written rap music lyrics intended for public consumption. The non-standard spellings evident in this corpus are used deliberately for various purposes, one of which is to graphically represent the phonological and syntactic features of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This use of non-standard orthography can be seen as a way for the writer to demonstrate a positive evaluation of the non-standard speech forms that characterize rap music performances. Other non-standard spellings bear no relation to the grammar or phon

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Sousa, Marta Deysiane Alves Faria, and Paloma Batista Cardoso. "A sociolinguística para além das variáveis sociais: a promoção de justiça social." Revista da ABRALIN 19, no. 2 (2020): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.25189/rabralin.v19i2.1469.

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Neste texto, resenhamos a conferência intitulada Language as a linguistic matter, ministrada por William Labov no evento Abralin ao vivo em 19 de maio de 2020. Labov discorre sobre as contribuições do estudo da variação do /r/ em Nova Iorque e a descrição do African American Vernacular English (AAVE) para a pesquisa sociolinguística. Segundo o conferencista, a partir desses trabalhos foi possível desenvolver novos métodos de descrição e análise quantitativa dos fatores linguísticos e sociais que atuam nos processos de variação e mudança linguística. Labov aponta como os estudos descritivos pod

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Stein, Alexandre. "O inglês vernacular afro-americano: descrição e implicações sociolinguísticas." Entretextos 20, no. 2 (2020): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/1519-5392.2020v20n2p43.

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Neste estudo abordamos questões relativas ao inglês vernacular afro-americano e suas implicações sociolinguísticas. A problemática levantada aqui refere-se ao cenário encontrado em muitas salas de aulas de escolas públicas regulares daquele país, nas quais diferentes etnias com diferentes línguas são atendidas por professores que, muitas vezes, se sentem desorientados quanto à forma de abordar tal multiplicidade. Nosso foco principal é a variedade do inglês vernacular afro-americano (IVAA) ou African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Estudos desenvolvidos desde a década se 1970, sobretudo os

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José, Brian. "Kirk Hazen. Identity and ethnicity in the rural South: A sociolinguistic view through past and present Be. Durham, NC: Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society, 2000. Pp. xii, 178. Pb $20.00." Language in Society 32, no. 3 (2003): 442–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404503293052.

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This book is the revised version of Hazen's 1997 Ph.D. dissertation at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). In it, Hazen investigates the linguistic behavior of three ethnic groups in Warren County, North Carolina, both individually and collectively, with respect to copula absence and leveling of past be, with the aim of ascertaining the linguistic boundaries that delineate the ethnic groups. These ethnic groups are African Americans (comprising 57% of the overall population in the 1990 Census), European Americans (38%), and Native Americans (4%). In addition to ethnicity, Hazen con

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Ortiz García, Javier. "This America, man. La traducción subtitulada de la variante AAVE en The Wire." Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 91 (March 10, 2022): 173–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/clac.72387.

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Este artículo ofrece una investigación sobre la traducción subtitulada al español de la variante dialectal African American Vernacular English (AAVE) y para su ilustración se emplean ejemplos de la serie estadounidense The Wire. En primer lugar, se analiza la vital importancia que cobra el AAVE (además de otras variedades dialectales como el bawlmer, propio de Baltimore) en el desarrollo de la serie, hasta el punto que, sin estas variedades lingüísticas el programa televisivo perdería buena parte de su bien construida esencia. A continuación, se trata desde una perspectiva teórica cómo afronta

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Arbain, Arbain. "Critical Discourse Analysis of Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie Part II”." Script Journal: Journal of Linguistic and English Teaching 1, no. 1 (2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.24903/sj.v1i1.19.

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<p class="abstrak">This study is to analyze songs from Eminem which is related to his life story. In examining the songs, the researchers used the three inter-related processes of analysis tied to three inter-related dimensions of discourse proposed by Faiclough’s model of CDA. This study applied qualitative design with the content analysis approach. The analysis of this research focused on the words used such as African American Vernacular English variety, Informal language and American slang in the lyrics of the song Love The Way You Lie Part II and explain them. The result findings sh

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Baugh, John. "Linguistic emancipation." Language 99, no. 4 (2023): 809–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2023.a914194.

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Abstract: The term linguistic emancipation embraces various interpretations. One relates to occasions where linguists have helped people overcome problems that are attributable to various linguistic calamities. Another pertinent vector relates to methodological innovations that extricate linguistic research from methodological confinement and that embrace new technologies to help advance our collective scientific mission. These alternative perspectives are illustrated here in small measure through studies of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and gender modification in the speech of a

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