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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"African American English"”.
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African-American Attitudes Concerning African-American English
… been significant studies done on the topic of African-American English. For the past quarter-century, a controversy over the recognition, value and use of African-American English has captured the attention of media, professionals, educators and parents nationwide. This study examined the …
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Differential Listener Perceptions of African -American English
A total of 210 undergraduates attending three universities in Chicago and in two western suburbs participated in the study. The participants were administered a 22-item questionnaire to determine their attitudes toward AAE speakers. It was found that taking courses in cultural diversity that …
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Capturing the Significance of African American English (AAE): An Insider Perspective
… study that explores the ways in which African American English (AAE) speakers understand and use their own language. The study is based on 10 individual interviews with participants who self-identified as fluent speakers of AAE and Mainstream American English (i.e., Standard English). …
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Variation In African American English: The Great Migration And Regional Differentiation
While African American English is among the best studied language varieties, it was historically taken to be relatively uniform, and it is only recently that regional variation in AAE has become an object of sustained study among sociolinguists. There has been as of yet no comprehensive, …
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Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South
<p>Debate about the development of African American English (AAE) dominated sociolinguistic inquiry for the second half of the 20th century and continues to be a subject of investigation. All hypotheses about the development of AAE integrate ideas of shared linguistic features coupled with strong …
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African American English as a Predictor of Ethnic and Ethnolinguistic Identity in Adolescence
… support for the <em>Social identity theory of African American English</em> (Vietze & Glasco, 2022) and the meanings African American English (AAE) speakers assign to their dialect. The study was primarily based on Tajfel’s (1979) social identity theory that proposes individuals derive a sense …
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African American English in Urban Education: A Multimethodological Approach to Understanding Classroom Discourse Strategies
Discrepancies between 'home English' and 'school English' for urban students have been addressed for decades by a number of scholars in the fields of linguistics, education, and sociology (Baratz 1969, Baugh 1995, Charity et al 2004, Alim 2009, Edwards 2010). Those students who speak prestige …
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An acoustic phonetic analysis of African American English: A comparative study of two dialects
… phonetic data and analysis to the study of African American English (AAE). For this research, I collected speech samples of self-identified AAE speakers and speakers of a dominant coexisting dialect, the Northern Cities Shift (NCS). I analyze these samples to determine if vowel quality and …
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African American English in urban education: a multimethodological approach to understanding classroom discourse strategies
Discrepancies between “home English” and “school English” for urban students have been addressed for decades by a number of scholars in the fields of linguistics, education, and sociology (Baratz 1969, Baugh 1995, Charity et al 2004, Alim 2009, Edwards 2010). Those students who speak prestige …
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A study of vowels /ɛ/ and /ɪ/ in African American English and standard American English
… the vowels /ɪ/ as in tin and /ɛ/ as in ten in African American English (AAE) and Standard American English (SAE) spoken in the Detroit, Michigan area. I first analyzed the acoustic properties of a number of speech samples to determine vowel quality and duration measurements. I then performed …
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Signifying in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Harriet Jacobs' Use of African American English
… unique to Jacobs" narrative: the use of African American English (AAE) in representing the speech of a number of her characters. Nor has any scholar exclusively focused on the authenticity of her representation of AAE. This paper, a first step in such an effort, demonstrates that Jacobs' …
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The effects of culturally-based computer software on the motivation and academic engagement of African American English speakers
… a need to respond to the educational demands of African American English (AAE) speakers based on standardized measures (Carnoy, Loeb & Smith, 2001). There is also a need to fill the gaps in our existing knowledge base of the effects of culturally and linguistically responsive intervention on …
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Language, race and space: What it means to be a speaker of African American English in higher education spaces
The purpose of this study is to understand how African American English-speaking students understand their language and writing practices and experiences with language in PWI spaces while also applying a framework, racial communicative competence. Racial communicative competence allows for the …
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ISOLATING EFFECTS OF PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT ON CHILDREN’S COMPREHENSION OF TWO DIALECTS OF ENGLISH, AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH AND GENERAL AMERICAN ENGLISH
… gap in literacy achievement between African American and European American students (e.g., NAEP, 2019, 2022). A large body of research has examined different factors that continue to reinforce performance differences across students. One variable that has been a long-term interest to …
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Infant-directed speech in African-American mothers
… modifications in the infant-directed speech of African American mothers; (2) examine the differences in the acoustic properties of the infant- and adult-directed speech of European American and African American mothers; (3) examine the relationship between the acoustic properties of mothers' …
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What does it mean to sound African American? Teachers' perceptions of school-age children's communication
… nonmainstream dialect, specifically looking at African American English (AAE). Eighty-one total teachers from the local school district listened to four different speech stimuli (elementary school-aged) enacted in either African American English or Mainstream American English using a …
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Literary Dialect In Flannery O'Connor's "The Lame Shall Enter First" And "Good Country People"
… was O’Connor a gifted author in her portrayal of African American English and Southern English, but that her writing was also accurate in comparison to language use in the South. The findings suggest that O’Connor’s characters were true to life in the Southern US at the time of her writing and …
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Illinois Secondary Principals' Perceptions and Expectations Concerning Students Who Use African American Vernacular English in an Academic Setting
… of and expectations for students who use African American Vernacular English. Using the African American English Teacher Attitude Scale (AAETAS), the study seeks to describe the relationship between principals’ demographic characteristics and their perceptions of African American …
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Talking black in public spaces: an investigation of identity and the use of preaching style in black pubic speech
… in order to examine how black public figures use African American English (AAE) to express complex identities in interaction. This study explores the interaction between phonological, grammatical, suprasegmental and rhetorical features of black speech and situational factors related to event …
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Examination Of Speech Disfluencies In The Story Generation Narratives Of Bidialectal Children
… that were created based on monolingual English-speaking norms. Specifically, research has already revealed that bilingual Spanish-English speaking children are at an increased risk for misdiagnosis of stuttering. The purpose of this study was to determine if bidialectal children who …
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