LING 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: African American Vernacular English, Picture Bride, Monophthongization
6 Dec 2018
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Where a community is formed around an ethnic group and identities. Difference linguistically in people who are descendents of slaves and african american or african american english or black american english who immigrated to america voluntarily. Slave ancestors had many different languages; expected to speak southern english. When first bought over; 1st generations like picture bride. Overlord speakers of englsih and many native languages. Settlements isolation , migration when dialect develops. Members of ethnic community/identity. now a social phenomenon. Not everyone who is a slave descendent is a member of an ethnic community that has a dialect. Pronunciation constant cluster simplification: bwa kind col cuts pronnonced bes kind, col cuts. Cf: sae in pas times, sofball ---vernacular standard. Final constanants dropped: don"t ---pronncend don" their pronnocned they, col eggs. Th replaced by /d/: this, that (dis and dat in aave) But probably not in something like think and thank. Monophthongization: now pronnonced na, time pronnonced tam.
