African American English: A Linguistic Introduction

By Lisa Green. 2002

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Linguistics

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Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP (2020, background): “strations that AAE is rule-bound and grammatical (Mufwene et al., 1998; Green, 2002), in addition to ample evidence of its speakers’ linguistic adroitness (e.”
RealToxicityPrompts: Evaluating Neural Toxic Degeneration in Language Models (2020, background): “AAE is a set of well-studied varieties of English that has its own grammar rules and pronunciation, and is mostly spoken by African Americans in the U.S (Green, 2002).”
The Risk of Racial Bias in Hate Speech Detection (2019, background): “AAE is a widely used dialect of English that is common among, but not unique to, those who identify as African American,1 and is often used in written form on social media to signal a cultural identity (Green, 2002; Edwards, 2004; Florini, 2014).”
Demographic Dialectal Variation in Social Media: A Case Study of African-American English (2016, methodology): “Many phonological features are closely associated with AAE (Green, 2002).”
Annotators with Attitudes: How Annotator Beliefs And Identities Bias Toxic Language Detection (2021, background): “English, common among, but not limited to, African-American or Black speakers (Green, 2002; Edwards, 2004).”
Racial Disparity in Natural Language Processing: A Case Study of Social Media African-American English (2017, background): “y, we investigate dialectal language in publicly available Twi−er data, focusing on African-American English (AAE), a dialect of American English spoken by millions of people across the United States [6, 14, 18]. AAE is a linguistic variety with de•ned syntactic-semantic, phonological, and lexical f”
Variable dialect switching among African American children: Inferences about working memory (2010, unknown): “The first five, past tense -ed, the past participle -en, the past tense copula was/were, the auxiliary have, and third person singular -s, were all chosen because they have been identified as points of divergence between AAE and MAE; see Green (2002), Craig and Washington (2006).”