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A 9 page research paper that examines the linguistic structure African American vernacular English. The writer looks at phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon, discussing the various ways in which black vernacular differs from standard English, yet demonstrating that it follows its own internal logic. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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American individuals (Smith, 1998). From this intensive field study, Labov and his associates determined that the speech patterns of African Americans represents a well-established verbal culture (Smith, 1998). This
distinct dialect of English was shown to have its own internal logic and to follow consistent rules of construction and pronunciation (Smith, 1998). In failing to take note of the
logic inherent in black English vernacular, and its ability to express complex ideas, Labov argued that educators and researchers erroneously classified an entire social demographic group as ignorant simply due
to their speech (Smith, 1998). Labov went so far as to argue that speakers of middle-class English were frequently less precise in expressing their ideas than speakers of black English
vernacular. Since the publication of Labovs study, linguists have frequently focused on the structure of black English vernacular (referred to in this report as BE). Black English differs from
Standard English in numerous significant ways. Linn (1998) provides a brief of differences, such as frequent lack of agreement between subject and verb (They runs home), copula deletion (He
tall), and absence of the /z/ possessive morpheme (The boy hat) and in phonological variants such as consonant cluster reduction (desk pronounced des), the substitution of alveolar stops for dental
fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find and found both pronounced as fond (p. 517).
As this list demonstrates, there are innumerable differences in the structure of BE that serves to differentiate it as a distinct cultural and social derivative of standard English.
The following discussion of BE looks more closely at these differences. Phonology Consonant cluster reduction is a principal feature of BE phonology (Bailey and Thomas, 1998). In a
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