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AAVE
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African American Vernacular English
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Five characteristics of AAVE.
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1. deletion of non-prevocalic /r/
2. deletion of 3rd person singular 's' and plural 's' 3. Multiple negation 4. copular verb (=copula) deletion (cf. SE Contraction) 5. Difference between habitual 'be' and regular 'be' |
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Gullah
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Creole form of English spoken in Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia
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Creolist hypothesis
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The idea that modern AAVE is decreolized creole from West Africa
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Dialectologish hypothesis
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The idea that AAVE is originated from southern dialect
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Example of copula deletion.
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She ugly.
You crazy. He workin'. |
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Example of copula contraction.
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She's ugly < She is ugly.
You're crazy < You are crazy. He's workin' < He is working. |
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Example of habitual (invariant) be in AAVE
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He be workin' (at his job) vs. He workin' (at the moment)
That coffee be cold (all the time) vs. That coffee cold (right now) |
