Black English History
The term for a simplified communication system used by adults in situations where groups must communicate with other groups who don’t speak the same language?
What is a Pidgin language
“Be” in the sentence “The breakroom coffee be cold” is an example of what Black English feature?
What is Habitual "Be"
What does the V stand for in the term African American V_______ English and what does it mean?
What is Vernucular, which means spoken
When children learn a simplified language system as their native language and develop it into a fully developed language, what is the term for the fully developed language?
What is a creole language
The sentence “We ⌀ good” is an example of what feature of Black English.
What is Zero copula or zero "be"
What language does bell hooks refer to as the “oppressor’s language” in her article “Language Teaching New Worlds New Words”?
What is Standard English
Linguists like Geneva Smitherman who study Black English history argue that contemporary Black English developed from languages in what region of Africa?
What is West Africa
What is one situation of the three situations where the morpheme -s can be dropped in Black English.
What is
-at the end of plurals (five boy)
-in present singular third-person verb endings (she sing)
-at the end of pocessive nouns (Amy car)
bell hooks argues that speaking Black English is a form of what against the oppressive history of colonization and the slave trade represented by Standard English.
What is Resistance or rebellion
What is the name of the community who lives in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and who speaks what Linguists believe is a preserved form of Black English?
Who are the Gullah people
What sound can be replaced with the -th in words like “this” or “that”?
What is "d" as in "dis or dat"
What is Geneva Smitherman’s terms for the pressure and process that Black English faces to assimilation or become more like main stream white English?
What is De-creolization
Beside Black English in North America, what is another example of a contemporary language that emerged from formerly enslaved African people who were brought to the Americas?
What is Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, Nigerian Pidgin, Gullah, Louisiana Creole, Saramaccan in Surinam, etc.
What word with emphasized pronunciation can be used in the blank in the following sentence “They ______ studying” to show that they started studying in the past and are continuing to study.
What is BEEN as in They BEEN studying
Geneva Smitherman argued that Black English has two dimensions: Language and what?
What is Style