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This book focuses on one of the most persistent and controversial questions in modern sociolinguistics: the past and present development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Despite intense scrutiny of the historical and current development of AAVE, a number of issues remain unresolved. Most prominent among these is the development of African American English during the antebellum period and the trajectory of change in twentieth-century AAVE. This book addresses both of these issues by examining an unparalleled sociolinguistic situation involving a long-standing, isolated, biracial community situated in a distinctive dialect region of coastal North Carolina. This unique environment provides a venue for dealing with questions of localized dialect accommodation and ethnolinguistic distinctiveness in earlier African American English. The conclusions drawn challenge the Creolist, Anglicist, and neo-Anglicist positions with respect to the history of AAVE and offer insights into the development of African American speech in the twentieth century.
List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor 's Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Status of African American English; 1.2 A Unique Database; 1.3 The Hyde County Corpus; 1.4 Data Analysis; 1.5 Beyond Hyde County; 2 Issues in the Development of African American English; 2.1 Hypotheses on Earlier African American English; 2.2 Issues in Reconstructing Earlier AAVE; 2.2.1 The nature of earlier written texts; 2.2.2 Spoken language data representing earlier AAVE; 2.2.3 The sociohistorical context of earlier African Americans; 2.2.4 Variation in earlier AAVE
2.2.5 Donor source attribution2.3 African American English in the Twentieth Century; 3 Defining the Enclave Dialect Community; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historically Isolated Speech Communities; 3.2.1 Geography; 3.2.2 Economy; 3.2.3 Historical continuity; 3.2.4 Social relations; 3.2.5 Group identity; 3.2.6 The social construction of enclave status; 3.3 Language Change in Enclave Communities; 3.4 Sociolinguistic Principles in the Con .guration of Isolated Dialects; 4 The Social History of Mainland Hyde County; 4.1 Chesapeake Bay Origins; 4.2 The Settlement of Hyde County
4.3 Hyde County from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War4.4 Reconstruction to the Great Depression; 4.5 Hyde County since 1940; 4.6 Sociohistorical Effects on Language; 5 Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English; 5.1 Issues in Attribution; 5.2 Past Tense be Regularization; 5.2.1 The historical development of leveling to weren 't; 5.2.2 Was/weren ' t leveling in Hyde County; 5.3 Copula/Auxiliary Is and Are Absence; 5.3.1 The historical development of copula absence; 5.3.2 Copula absence in Hyde County; 5.4 Third Person -s Marking
5.4.1 The historical development of verbal -s marking5.4.2 Verbal -s marking in Hyde County; 5.5. Conclusion; 6 Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English; 6.1 An Overview of Hyde County Vowels; 6.2 The Historical Background of Hyde County Vowels; 6.3 Quantitative Analysis of Hyde County Vowels; 6.4 Conclusions; 7 Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English; 7.1 Earlier Hyde County Consonants; 7.2 The Case of Consonant Cluster Reduction; 7.2.1 The patterning of cluster reduction; 7.2.2 Explaining consonant cluster reduction patterns in Hyde County; 7.3 The Case of Postvocalic r Vocalization
7.3.1 The patterning of postvocalic r -lessness7.3.2 Post-/d/r vocalization; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English; 8.1 African American and European American Intonation; 8.2 Analytical Methods; 8.3 Results and Implications; 8.4 Conclusions; 9 The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English; 9.1 The Individual and Group in Variation Studies; 9.2 The Sample of Elderly African American Speakers; 9.3 Some Diagnostic Variables; 9.3.1 Rhoticity; 9.3.2 Syllable-coda consonant cluster reduction; 9.3.3 The vowel system; 9.3.4 Verbal -s concord
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.
Oxford, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2002
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