Key Terms
This is regarded as a language in its own right as a dialect of standard English.
What is African American English?
This started with African Americans in colonial America.
What is Plantation Creole?
"I didn't do nothing."
What is a double negative?
This is another word for African-American English.
What is Ebonics?
A particular form of a language that is specific to a certain region or social group
What is Dialect?
This case ruled that segregated schools were 'separate but unequal'.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This grammatical feature is called copula absence.
What is emittance of the verb to be?
1954 was the year in which this case took place.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
In linguistics, this is when a speaker alternates between two or more languages in a single conversation.
What is code-switching?
This event in 1979 adopted a policy titled "Black Language: Proficiency in Standard English for Speakers of Black Language."
What is the Black English Trial?
This grammatical feature uses to be to signify a regularly occurring event.
What is habitual be?
"They hungry" is an example of this grammatical feature.
What is copula absence?
This is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages.
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?
What is Black Vernacular English?