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LING 115 - Unit 8 African AmericanVernacular English, language in
education and the Ebonics Controversy
T/F: African American Vernacular English is a regional dialect. - correct
answer ✔False, it is a language which is found within a particular ethnic
group, a non-regional variety of speech spread across North America
AAVE is generally produced by speakers in what types of situations and social
classes? - correct answer ✔Casual and informal situations, and is much
more common among those from the working class; African Americans from
middle class are more likely to be speakers of SAE
What other groups have begun to use features of AAVE and why? - correct
answer ✔Many non-black young people, in particular teenagers from families
who have recently immigrated to the US and live in urban areas, use it for
identity purposes, particularly in inner cities
AAVE Pronunciation: 'Consonant cluster' simplification - correct answer
✔Speakers of AAVE regularly pronounce spelled sequences of consonants in
a reduced way when these sequences occur at the ends of words, 'lose' their
second consonant
EX: kept -> kep', best -> bes', cold -> col'
What is the difference between speakers of AAVE and SAE? - correct answer
✔AAVE modifies word-final clusters at the ends of sentences/utterances, and
when the next word begins with a vowel in addition to when the next word
begins with a consonant (just SAE)
, Due to the more extensive simplification process in AAVE, how would the
plurals of words which would end in consonant clusters may sound? - correct
answer ✔desks = desses, tests = tesses, add plural -es to word stem ending
in s
Omission of 'copula' be in present tense - what is it and in what languages is it
common? - correct answer ✔She is really nice -> She real nice; He is the
boss -> He the boss; occurs in certain southern dialects in the US but not as
frequent, fully common in Creole languages
What are some cases where AAVE speakers do not leave out copula be and
what does this indicate? - correct answer ✔If copula be occurs in an
'exposed' position at the beginning or end of a sentence, it may not be
omitted. Shows that AAVE speakers DO have a copula element in their
grammar but delete it under certain special circumstances
EX: I know what it is; Is she really? How fine you are!
But where can copula be only be deleted in AAVE and what does it indicate? -
correct answer ✔Wherever SAE permits contraction, AAVE permits deletion,
and where SAE bans contraction, AAVE bans deletion; proves that it is
governed by the complex interaction of intricate rules which furthermore occur
in standard English and many other languages
EX: I know what it's -> I know what it, How fine you're -> How fine you
(wrong!)
What is the 'invariant' be? - correct answer ✔The occurrence of be with
subjects of all person and number categories, marks 'habitual aspect'
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