The regional context of earlier African American speech: Evidence for reconstructing the development of AAVE. Wolfram, W., Thomas, E. R., & Green, E. W. Language in Society, 29(3):315–355, July, 2000. ![The regional context of earlier African American speech: Evidence for reconstructing the development of AAVE [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Despite extensive research over the past four decades, a number of issues concerning the historical and current development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) remain unresolved. This study utilizes a unique sociolinguistic situation – a long-standing, isolated, biracial community situated in a distinctive dialect region of coastal North Carolina – to address questions of localized dialect accommodation and ethnolinguistic distinctiveness in earlier African American English. A comparison of diagnostic phonological and morphosyntactic variables for a sample of four different generations of African Americans and a baseline European American group shows that considerable accommodation of the localized dialect occurred in earlier African American speech. Nonetheless, certain dialect features – e.g., copula absence and 3rd person verbal s marking - were distinctively maintained by African Americans in the face of localized dialect accommodation; and this suggests long-term ethnolinguistic distinctiveness. Cross-generational change among African Americans indicates that younger speakers are moving away from the localized Pamlico Sound dialect toward a more generalized AAVE norm. Contact-based and identity-based explanations are offered for the current trend of localized dialect displacement.
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title = {The regional context of earlier {African} {American} speech: {Evidence} for reconstructing the development of {AAVE}},
volume = {29},
issn = {0047-4045, 1469-8013},
shorttitle = {The regional context of earlier {African} {American} speech},
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doi = {10.1017/S0047404500003018},
abstract = {Despite extensive research over the past four decades, a number of issues concerning the historical and current
development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) remain unresolved. This study utilizes a unique sociolinguistic situation – a long-standing, isolated, biracial community situated in a distinctive dialect region of coastal North Carolina – to address questions of localized dialect accommodation and ethnolinguistic distinctiveness in earlier African American English. A comparison of diagnostic phonological and morphosyntactic variables for a sample of four different generations of African Americans and a baseline European American group shows that considerable accommodation of the localized dialect occurred in earlier African American speech. Nonetheless, certain dialect features – e.g., copula absence and 3rd person verbal s marking - were distinctively maintained by African Americans in the face of localized dialect accommodation; and this suggests long-term ethnolinguistic distinctiveness. Cross-generational
change among African Americans indicates that younger speakers
are moving away from the localized Pamlico Sound dialect toward a more generalized AAVE norm. Contact-based and identity-based explanations are offered for the current trend of localized dialect displacement.},
language = {en},
number = {3},
urldate = {2020-04-30},
journal = {Language in Society},
author = {Wolfram, Walt and Thomas, Erik R. and Green, Elaine W.},
month = jul,
year = {2000},
keywords = {Hyde County, North Carolina, North Carolina},
pages = {315--355},
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