ENGLISH 3271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Linking Verb, African American Vernacular English, Boston Brahmin
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Dutch eng: chicano eng, london multicultural eng. Some aae phonological features: consonant cluster simplification consonant deleted when both consonants have same voicing value. Interdental fricatives realized as alveolar stops or labiovelar fricatives: final stop devoicing/glottalization. Story in harlem slang by zora hurston: devil in a blue dress by walter mosely. I done got all the clients though: stressed bin/been to express temporal continuity since a remote bast, been bout that life/ been bout whatever. Standard english ideology: the idea that there is one correct way of speaking that all people in a culture should strive to use in all contexts. In the us, this perceived correct way of speaking corresponds to the dialect we label standard english. In linguistic terms, se is not better or more correct than any other dialect of. English dialect speakers of nonstandard varieties are often stigmatized.