Speech Midterm

What is the biggest linga Francas

English

offical langauge of US

Now it is english

before, none

What is dialect leveling

reduction of marked differences in dialects over time through nore contact bewteen speakers

norman conquest

1066 - french normans invaded england

German english became more french influenced

made what is modern day English

what language became offical after conquest

french became mor enforced, needed for trade and food

made English

Double modal

two modals

might could, might should

northern cities vowel shift - where was it

in a northern region - inland north

chicago, detroit, buffalo,

know term used for collection of language variation and dialects spoken in a geographical area

regional dialect?

Pidgins and creoles - which have no native speakers

pidgins

which is a contact lnagauge

pidgin

no native speakers

pidgin

upon which langauges are most of the world lnagauges based

romance langauges or Proto-Indo European

which of the two has native speakers

creoles

what does AAVE stand for

af american venacular English

AAVE speakers use f instead of th - what is this type of change

th- fronticity

phonological

what can be inferred from the documentary perspecative on the importance of understanding and appreciating AAVE

• AAVE is a real lnaguage

• it is not inferiro

• it is important to their culture and their cultureis is in AAVE

Lingutici society of aneruica states that all human lnagauge systems are fundementally regular and calledsome virtues like ebonics broken englisha nd defective. true or false

true

language purist

beleive only the standard should be spoken

what is a negative concord

when you put multiple negatives for emphasis

syntax

i aint do nothing

is AAVE and ethnolect

yes - of an ethnic group

ted talk

• chandra aurthur

• deflault conformity

• code switching

what was her experince

because she learned to code switch she had increased access to opportunities as a minority woman in the tech industry

what does she discuss

urbanization - AAVE in urban areas infleunce those who speak AAVE in rural areas

what is urbanization

when a dialect in a large urban area influences the dialect in a smaller rural area

code switching

when people who speak multiple lnagauges alternate between the two oftent imes in the same sentence

school that taught AAVE in Minnesota

lucy lane

which city reffered to aave as ebonics and considered to teach ebonics

Oakland

documentary

talking black in America

what standard sialect was discusses in the doc

AAVE

name 2 verbal skills considered sig in the AAVE spoken communities

rolling of the dozens - verbal battles

call and response , preaching

what is the nons tsandard dialect the doc is on

AAVE

what 2 lanaguges influence the gullah langauges

english and west African? creole?

sentence that contains a third person singular gender neutral pronoun

my cowoker was tired today so i told thme id cover their shift

3 phonologuical differences in AAVE and SAE

• metathesis - switching counds like ask and aks

• th -frontiicuty - replecae th with f

• non rhoticity - drop the r from words that arent followed by a vowel

write a sentence with a null copula

they going to the store

essay

• Kids who grow up in aave communtiies are able to become so skilled at lanaguge use becasue of AAVES rich history. Boring born out of slave culture and oppression, aave and its communtiies have the ability to use lnagauge and words in specific ways to reflect values like to be able to defend themsevles verbally, as well as express and praise themselves as standard american english did not achive this for them. SAE was used to opress them. Kids who use aave, which is rich in these abilites, are able to become skilled at using langauge to do these things, crealtibley defedning or praising themslves on the spot. The genre of music that develped out of aave pioneers is blues, which cam from songs expressing feelings and emiotns because of opression. AAVE has this in it, the ability to express things thorugh langauge and words.

write a question

• which one of these cities was NOT part of a specific vowel shift that took plac ein a specific region that spread from more urban to more rural area

• chicago

• detroit

• nashville

• buffalo

mash pilon

Haiti

hot comb

african American

shekere

west africa

double models

should could would might can may

which is more grammaticaly complex

creole