AAE & Spanish Language Differences

/l/ lessened or omitted

seen in AAE

/r/ lessened or omitted

seen in AAE

/f/ substitution for voiceless /th/ medial & final (post-vocalic positions)

seen in AAE

/d/ substitution for voiceless /th/ initial position (pre-vocalic)

seen in AAE

final consonant deletion

seen in AAE

omission of plurals

seen in AAE & Spanish

omission of possessives

seen in AAE and Spanish

omission of past tense marker -ed

seen in AAE

omission of copula

seen in AAE

/ch/ substitution for /sh/

seen in Spanish

/b/ substitution for /v/

seen in Spanish

dentalized /t, d, n/

seen in Spanish

omission of past tense morpheme

seen in Spanish

adjectives following nouns

seen in Spanish

auxiliary past tense construction

seen in Spanish

double negatives

seen in Spanish