Author: Jewel Denise TarpleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American children
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A Study of Auditory Discrimination and Pronunciation Among Speakers of Black Dialect
Author: Jewel Denise TarpleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American children
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
English with an Accent
Author: Rosina Lippi-GreenPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415114776
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In English with an AccentRosina Lippi-Green examines American attitudes towards language, exposing the way in which language is used to maintain and perpetuate social structures.
Language in the Inner City
Author: William LabovPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812210514
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
With the recent controversy in the Oakland, California school district about Ebonics—or as it is referred to in sociolinguistic circles, African American Vernacular English or Black English Vernacular—much attention has been paid to the patterns of speech prevalent among African Americans in the inner city. In January 1997, at the height of the Ebonics debate, author and prominent sociolinguist William Labov testified before a Senate subcommittee that for most inner city African American children, the relation of sound to spelling is different, and more complicated than for speakers of other dialects. He suggested that it was time to apply this knowledge to the teaching of reading. The testimony harkened back to research contained in his groundbreaking book Language in the Inner City, originally published in 1972. In it, Labov probed the question "Does 'Black English' exist?" and emerged with an answer that was well ahead of his time, and that remains essential to our contemporary understanding of the subject. Language in the Inner City firmly establishes African American Vernacular English not simply as slang but as a well-formed set of rules of pronunciation and grammar capable of conveying complex logic and reasoning. Studying not only the normal processes of communication in the inner city but such art forms as the ritual insult and ritualized narrative, Labov confirms the Black vernacular as a separate and independent dialect of English. His analysis goes on to clarify the nature and processes of linguistic change in the context of a changing society. Perhaps even more today than two decades ago, Labov's conclusions are mandatory reading for anyone concerned with education and social change, with African American culture, and with the future of race relations in this country.
Phonological Features of the Consonant System of African American Vernacular English
Author: Hanna KrausePublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3656979731
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This term paper will give a descriptive summary of the sound patterns used in African American vernacular English, but will also go further by discussing the linguistic environments in which such patterns occur. It is restricted to the phonological features of the consonant system of African American vernacular English (AAVE) and does not deal with the characteristics of the vowel system. Furthermore, this term paper should show that speakers of AAVE do not haphazardly insert and delete sound and that it is not fair to evaluate the sounds as “lazy speech” since the patterns used in the sound system of AAVE are completely regular and the way in which sound combinations occur, is very systematic and based on defined rules. This work also tries to make clear what AAVE is and in which ways it is different and similar to general American and Standard English. The first chapter introduces two different theories about the question how African American English might have been developed. In some contexts, it has been suggested that the pattern of final consonant sounds in AAE has similarities with the pattern of final consonant sounds in West African languages. Part two deals with the feature of consonant cluster reduction, which has received the most attention in the phonological studies of AAE. Speakers do not always say the same thing the same way all the time, of course, so the percentage rate of reduction may be greater for some speakers than others Chapter 3 focuses on the fact that interdental fricatives, represented orthographically by th in Standard English, are often realized by labio- dental fricatives among some AAE speakers. It reveals that voicing value of consonant sounds plays a major role in the production of sounds. For example /f/ and /v/ occur in environments in which voiceless th and voiced th occur in Standard English. Part 4 concentrates on the feature of devoicing and especially on the correlation of the variable /d/ with social class. Data adopted from Wolfram helps to study the speech of Negroes from several socio- economic levels and shows the relationship between the use of sound patterns and extralingusitic factors. Chapter 5 continues the discussion of consonants, focusing on the liquids /r/ and /l/. It explains environments in which /r/ is not produced by speakers of AAE. The last chapter lists some other phonological features of AAVE, but not in a detailed way, as there is not enough data available.
A Study of the Variable of Black Dialect as it Affects the Performance of Black Children on a Speech-sound Discrimination Test
Author: Adeline Cheryl AldersonPublisher:
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Category : African American children
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Studies in English to Speakers of Other Languages, & Standard English to Speakers of a Non-standard Dialect
Author: Rodolfo JacobsonPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Black and White Speech in the Southern United States
Author: George T. DorrillPublisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This study compares the pronunciation of the stressed vowel nuclei of black and white southerners interviewed for the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States. The informants from Maryland (two pairs), Virginia (seven pairs), and North Carolina (seven pairs), were all interviewed in the period 1933-1939 by a single field worker, Guy S. Lowman, Jr., and were matched as closely as possible for age, education, social class, and geographical proximity. The principal findings of the study are that systematic differences exist between black and white speakers in the pronunciation of the stressed vowels, on the phonic or subphonemic level. This is the same type of variation that is used to characterize dialect differences in the United States. The differences in speech, however, while systematic, are not categorical: i.e., there are no speech features examined that exist solely for black or white speakers. Another finding was that regional variation in speech was less apparent for black speakers than for white speakers.
Black Dialect, Reading Interference and Classroom Interaction
Author: Herbert D. SimonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black English
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Author: Black Children's Perception of the Use of Their Dialect
Author: Luberta MaysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description