American English: Dialects and Variation, 2nd Edition

By Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-Estes. 2005

Subfields: Linguistics

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1. Hal Daumé Iii
2. Walt Wolfram
3. Su Lin Blodgett
4. Janneke Van Hofwegen

Citations in the corpus

• Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP (2020, background): “io/ (5)This language variety has had many different names over the years, but is now generally called AfricanAmerican English (AAE), African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), or African-American Language (AAL) (Green, 2002; Wolfram and Schilling, 2015; Rickford and King, 2016).”
• Coming of age in African American English: A longitudinal study† (2010, background): “…diagnostic variable characteristic of all vernacular varieties of English such as -ing fronting (Schneider 2008) will parallel structural variables that are unique to AAE among American English dialects, such as 3rd person singular -s absence (Rickford 1999; Wolfram and Schilling-Estes 2006).”