Dialect accommodation in a bi-ethnic mountain enclave community: More evidence on the development of African American English. Mallinson, C. & Wolfram, W. Language in Society, 31(5):743–775, November, 2002.
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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 English. The examination of a set of diagnostic phonological and morphosyntactic variables for several of the remaining African Americans in this community supports the conclusion that earlier African American English largely accommodated local dialects while maintaining a subtle, distinctive ethnolinguistic divide. However, unlike the situation in some other African American communities, there is no current movement toward an AAVE external norm for the lone isolated African American teenager; rather, there is increasing accommodation to the local dialect. Contact-based, identity-based, and ideologically based explanations are appealed to in describing the past and present direction of change for the African Americans in this receding community.
@article{mallinson_dialect_2002,
	title = {Dialect accommodation in a bi-ethnic mountain enclave community: {More} evidence on the development of {African} {American} {English}},
	volume = {31},
	issn = {0047-4045, 1469-8013},
	shorttitle = {Dialect accommodation in a bi-ethnic mountain enclave community},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0047404502315021/type/journal_article},
	doi = {10.1017/S0047404502315021},
	abstract = {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 
English. The examination of a set of diagnostic phonological 
and morphosyntactic variables for several of the remaining African 
Americans in this community supports the conclusion that earlier 
African American English largely accommodated local dialects 
while maintaining a subtle, distinctive ethnolinguistic divide. 
However, unlike the situation in some other African American 
communities, there is no current movement toward an AAVE external 
norm for the lone isolated African American teenager; rather, 
there is increasing accommodation to the local dialect. 
Contact-based, identity-based, and ideologically based explanations 
are appealed to in describing the past and present direction 
of change for the African Americans in this receding community.},
	language = {en},
	number = {5},
	urldate = {2020-04-30},
	journal = {Language in Society},
	author = {Mallinson, Christine and Wolfram, Walt},
	month = nov,
	year = {2002},
	keywords = {Appalachia, North Carolina, Vowels},
	pages = {743--775},
}

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