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The Development of African American English
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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).
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Series Editor ’s Preface
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Issues in the Development of African American English
- 3 Defining the Enclave Dialect Community
- 4 The Social History of Mainland Hyde County
- 5 Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English
- 6 Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English
- 7 Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English
- 8 Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English
- 9 The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English
- 10 Beyond Hyde County:The Past and Present Development of AAVE
- References
- Index