Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Afrcan American Vernacular English in "Middletown"

by Huang

Muncie has a small African American population which must interact with whites on a daily basis.

p. 245 "this study has found linguistic convergence of Muncie AAVE with WVE phonologically in the last two decades."

p. 252 also syntactically

p. 253 "a linguistic change in which Muncie AAVE is converging with WVE both syntactically and phonologically" due to linguistic accomodation and close daily contact

contrast to Labov 1986, where in a city setting the dialects are diverging

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