Key Terms
This is regarded as a language in its own right as a dialect of standard English.
What is African American English?
This camp believed AAVE started with enslaved Africans attempting to communicate with indentured servants during the colonial period.
What is Dialect Hypothesis?
"I helped cook dinner last night."
What is a Standard American English?
This is another word for African-American English.
What is Ebonics/AAVE/Black English?
The language or dialect spoken by a group of people.
What is Vernacular?
A particular form of a language that is specific to a certain region or social group
What is Dialect?
In this court case the witness testified but was misunderstood by jurors because of her African American English.
What is Trayvon Martin v. George Zimmerman?
This grammatical feature uses subject verb agreement.
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This year a Oakland Unified School District passed a resolution to teach AAVE in school.
What is 1996?
"I BEEN turned in the homework."
What is Stressed Been?
In linguistics, this is when a speaker alternates between two or more languages in a single conversation.
What is code-switching?
This event, in early 20th century, happened when millions of Black people moved to different corners of the country.
What is the Great Migration?
This grammatical feature uses to be to signify a regularly occurring event.
What is habitual be?
"They hungry" is an example of this language system.
What is African American English?
This means to express in a confusing way.
What is incoherent?
This is a process by which people who speak different languages mix their languages in order to communicate.
What is Creolization?
What school board passed a resolution defining Ebonics as a native language for the African American students within the district?
What is the Oakland (California) school district?
They be slow (all the time).
What is habitual be?
AAVE is the abbreviation for this term.
What is African American Vernacular English?
This relates to language.
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This occurs when acts of racism are perpetuated against individuals on the basis of their language use.
What is Linguistic Racism?
This factor caused Black people to flee the South.
What is KKK or Jim Crow?
This habitual action suggests an action is complete.
What is Done?
The method of teaching.
What is Pedagogy?
This refers to a subtle or slight difference.
What is nuance?