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African-AmericanVernacularEnglish: by: Alessia Biasibetti, Fang Lan, Aldo Ostwald Contents: 1. General Remarks 2. Phonology 3. Syntax 4. Speech Acts What is AAVE? - Variety of GA, spoken by African-Americans - Origin: unclear - Creole theory - Dialect theory - Range of intensity - No regional variety, but often found in urban areas - Political implications: Oakland Debate 1997 What is AAVE? What is AAVE? - Variety of GA, spoken by African-Americans - Origin: unclear - Creole theory - Dialect theory - Range of intensity - No regional variety, but often found in urban areas - Political implications: Oakland Debate 1997 Phonology The Rainbow Passage: When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch with its path high above and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say: he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Text and sound file from: /~idea/ Consonant Features Reduction of word-final consonant clusters ‘hand’ : /h@nd/ → /h@n/ desk : /desk/ → /des/ gold : /gould/ → /goul/ and : /@nd/ → /@n/ Consonant Features Reduction of word-final consonant clusters man : /m@n/ → /m@/ cat : /k@t/ → /k@/ bad : /b@d/ → /b@/ Reduction of /?r/ to /?/ throwdown : /?roudaun/ → /?oudaun/ Consonant Features Devoicing of word-final stops after vowels: bad : /b?d/ → /b?t/ Reduction of /?/ to /n/ in gerunds and participles: walking: /w??ki?/ → /w??kin/ Consonant Features Substitution of /f/ or /t/ for /?/: thin: /?In/ → /tIn/ bath: /b??/ → /b?f/ Substitution of /v/ or /d/ for /?/: then /?en/ → /den/ brother /?br???r/ → /?br?v?/* Consonant Features Deletion of /r/ after vowels: sister