{"product_id":"the-development-of-african-american-english-isbn-9780631230878","title":"The Development of African American English","description":"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).  Series Editor's Preface. \u003cp\u003eList of Figures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Introduction:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Status of African American English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Unique Data Base.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hyde County Corpus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eData Analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Hyde County.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Issue in the Development of African American English:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHypotheses on Earlier African American English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIssues in Reconstructing Earlier AAVE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nature of Earlier Written Texts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpoken Language Data Representing Earlier AAVE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sociohistorical Context of Earlier African Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVariation in Earlier AAVE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDonor Source Attribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican American English in the Twentieth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Defining the Enclave Dialect Community:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorically Isolated Speech Communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Continuity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Relations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGroup Identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Social Construction of Enclave Status.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Change in Enclave Communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociolinguistic Principles in the Configuration of Isolated Dialects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. The Social History of Mainland Hyde County:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChesapeake Bay Origins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Settlement of Hyde County.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHyde County from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconstruction to the Great Depression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHyde County since 1940.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociohistorical Effects on Language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIssues in Attribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePast Tense be Regularization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Development of Leveling to Weren't.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWas\/Weren't Leveling in Hyde County.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCopula\/Auxiliary Is and Are Absence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Development of Copula Absence. |.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCopula Absence in Hyde County.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThird Person –S Marking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Development of Verbal –S Marking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerbal –S Marking in Hyde County.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Overview of Hyde County Vowels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Background of Hyde County Vowels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuantitative Analysis of Hyde County Vowels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarlier Hyde County Consonants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Case of Consonant Cluster Reduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Patterning of Cluster Reduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Case of Postvocalic r Vocalization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Patterning of Postvocalic r-lessness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-\/?\/ r Vocalization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican American and European American Intonation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalytical Methods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResults and Implications.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Individual and Group in Variation Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sample of Elderly African American Speakers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Diagnostic Variables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRhoticity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSyllable-Coda Consonant Cluster Reduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vowel System.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerbal –s Concord.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCopula Absence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePast Tense be Leveling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePatterns of Correlation and Individuation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVariation in Earlier AAVE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Beyond Hyde County: Te Past and Present Development of AAVE:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origin of African American English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Regional Context of Earlier African American English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLevels of Linguistic Alignment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Trajectory of Language Change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Norming of AAVE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIssues in Vernacular Dialect Norming.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVernacular Language Norming in Hyde County.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplaining the Supraregional Norms of Contemporary AAVE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"The Development of African American English is a masterpiece. The authors systematically examine linguistic and historical evidence from an area (Hyde County, North Carolina ) that has not figured in earlier discussions of African American Vernacular English . The result is a more complex and intricate picture of Black\/White sociolinguistic relations,both now and in the past, than we have had to this point, with rich implications for how research on language variation and change should be conducted more generally.\" John R. Rickford, Stanford University \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Wolfram and Thomas's investigation of language in a biracial Southern enclave has much to tell us. Their attention to key issues of theory and methodology informs their research and bolsters a set of carefully argued conclusions about the history of African American English. The authors' work takes on a broader significance by their willingness to tackle vexing questions, whether the issue is how to assess differences in intonation patterns between African Americans and European Americans or how to relate individual differences to community variation.\" \u003ci\u003eJohn Singler, New York University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Specialized but of the utmost importance to dialectologists and sociologists, this volume is exhaustive, accurate, provocative, and compelling. Recommended enthusiastically for graduate students, researchers, and faculty.\" \u003ci\u003eChoice, December 2002, Vol 40 No. 04\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalt Wolfram\u003c\/b\u003e is William C. Friday Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University. He has pioneered research on a wide range of American vernacular dialects and authored or co-authored 15 books, including \u003ci\u003eAmerican English\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell 1998, with Natalie Schilling-Estes) and over 200 articles.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErik R. Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Linguistics at North Carolina State University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eAn Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Variation in New World English\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), and has published widely in journals such as \u003ci\u003eLanguage Variation and Change\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJournal of Phonetics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  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).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eDespite 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990205808869,"sku":"NP9780631230878","price":90.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631230878.jpg?v=1761786900","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-development-of-african-american-english-isbn-9780631230878","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}