ANTHRO 2D Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Scantron Corporation, Mutual Intelligibility, African American Vernacular English
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February 14th: midterm, bring pen, pencil, and scantron f288. Goals for today: finish bedtime stories, african american english, iggy azalea & rights to black language. Maintown white upper-middle class labeling; what-explanations books have authority kids respond to conversational allusions books are a source of entertainment preschoolers make up their own stories kids choose to read to adults. Kids aren"t the problem; it"s schools that can"t recognize and take into account cultural differences in reading, writing, and orality. Addressing inequality means redesigning institutions in order to accept variation, rather than ignore it. Southern u. s. english + west african languages + unique elements: aae is not slang (though, like any language, it contains slang, aae is not a broken form of standard english, it"s mutually intelligible with standard. English: aae has systematic phonological, morphological, and syntatic features. Grammatical features of aae phonology: ng n: goin" i eatin" i walkin" simplified consonant clusters, test tes, metathesis, ask aks | wasp wap.
