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Series Editor's Preface | ||
Preface | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Issues in the Development of African American English | 12 |
Hypotheses on Earlier African American English | 12 | |
Issues in Reconstructing Earlier AAVE | 14 | |
African American English in the Twentieth Century | 27 | |
3 | Defining the Enclave Dialect Community | 32 |
Historically Isolated Speech Communities | 33 | |
Language Change in Enclave Communities | 40 | |
Sociolinguistic Principles in the Configuration of Isolated Dialects | 44 | |
4 | The Social History of Mainland Hyde County | 47 |
Chesapeake Bay Origins | 47 | |
The Settlement of Hyde County | 49 | |
Hyde County from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War | 54 | |
Reconstruction to the Great Depression | 59 | |
Hyde County since 1940 | 62 | |
Sociohistorical Effects on Language | 64 | |
5 | Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English | 66 |
Issues in Attribution | 67 | |
Past Tense be Regularization | 69 | |
Copula/Auxiliary Is and Are Absence | 77 | |
Third Person -s Marking | 83 | |
6 | Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English | 95 |
An Overview of Hyde County Vowels | 96 | |
The Historical Background of Hyde County Vowels | 104 | |
Quantitative Analysis of Hyde County Vowels | 111 | |
7 | Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English | 125 |
Earlier Hyde County Consonants | 126 | |
The Case of Consonant Cluster Reduction | 132 | |
The Case of Postvocalic r Vocalization | 140 | |
8 | Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English | 151 |
African American and European American Intonation | 151 | |
Analytical Methods | 155 | |
Results and Implications | 156 | |
9 | The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English | 160 |
The Individual and Group in Variation Studies | 161 | |
The Sample of Elderly African American Speakers | 165 | |
Some Diagnostic Variables | 166 | |
Patterns of Correlation and Individuation | 175 | |
Variation in Earlier AAVE | 179 | |
10 | Beyond Hyde County: The Past, and Present Development of AAVE | 184 |
The Origin of African American English | 184 | |
The Regional Context of Earlier African American English | 188 | |
Levels of Linguistic Alignment | 194 | |
The Trajectory of Language Change | 197 | |
The Norming of AAVE | 202 | |
References | 213 | |
Index | 232 |
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