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African American Vernacular English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
African American Vernacular English ( AAVE )—also called African American English ; less precisely Black English , Black Vernacular , Black English Vernacular ( BEV ), or Black Vernacula...
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Suffix -s Variation ... Plural -s (contextual signals) ... Third person Singular -s...
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The history of AAVE and its genetic affiliation, by which we mean what language varieties it is related to, are also a matter of controversy. Some scholars contend that AAVE developed out of the contact between speakers of West African languages and speakers of vernacular English varieties.
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Most linguists think of AAVE as a dialect of English ... Most linguists, myself included, think of black English, or African American Vernacular English (AAVE) as a dialect of English. It may exhibit some features derived from African languages, but it is readily recognizable and understandable as English.
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The variety known as "Ebonics," "African American Vernacular English" (AAVE), and "Vernacular Black English" and by other names is systematic and rule-governed like all natural speech varieties. In fact, all human linguistic systems -- spoken, signed, and written -- are fundamentally regular.
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Two issues loom large in discussions of the development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE).1 The first is the "creole origins issue"--the question of whether AAVE's predecessors, two or three hundred years ago, included creole languages similar to Gullah (spoken on the islands off the coast of South Carolina...
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A Webpage for Linguists and other Folks ... by Prof. Peter L Patrick, PhD ... Go to my general links page, section on AAVE...
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