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AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH - Coggle Diagram
AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH
AAE continuum
set of sociolect (= valid)
continuum (following) of dialect
but variations so = variety
ex geo (rural, S vs.)
AA Standard E --> AA vernacular E)
Poorly understood by most people
often mocked (nn-stand + AA speakers)
History
1896: landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision: racial segregation
but change at some point ex : Civil Rights Act in1964
1972 : school failed taking to account home lang > lawsuit
‘Separate but equal’ doctrine
Ebonics = "AA lang." (1970s) ex : t Robert Williams
today = dispreferred (linguists...)
ex : criticism, jokes...
goal = avoid racism
Origins
debates
Creole ?
ex : Copula deletion
Af ?
ex : West African languages often lack /θ/ and /ð/
English ?
common features with S
"y'all" = "you"
double negatives
fixin' to (instead of going to)
confusion between both
Phonology
Pin–pen merger
Th-fronting of [θ] = /f/
consonant cluster deletion
different types
Apheresis = omission of sound at beg of wrd
Apocope = " " " end of a
word
Morphosynthax
ain’t replaces many thgs
double negatives
subject-auxiliary inversion
ain't nobody got time
No -s ending (3rd)
Copular be (=dropped)
strict rules in lang