LINGUIST List 15. 2734: NYT: Op-ed Piece on AAVE From: Karen Chung <karchung ntu edu tw> Subject: NYT: Op-ed Piece on AAVE There's an op-ed piece in the September 30, 2004 issue of the New York Times online, entitled: Changing Places by Henry Louis Gates Jr Some excerpts: The black vernacular seems to be everywhere these days, from Dave Chappelle's show to Boost Mobile's ''Where you at?'' ad
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 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. 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. 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. 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 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)