African American English: A Linguistic Introduction

By J. Hunter. 2002

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Detoxifying Language Models Risks Marginalizing Minority Voices (2021, methodology): “Concretely, we evaluate detoxiﬁed LMs on text with minority identity mentions (e.g., words such as “gay” or “Muslim”) and surface markers of African-American English (Green, 2002, AAE).”
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): “We further validate our model by verifying that it re-produces well-known AAE syntactic constructions, investigating three well-attested AAE aspectual or preverbal markers: habitual be , future gone , and completive done (Green, 2002).”
Challenges in Automated Debiasing for Toxic Language Detection (2021, background): “Since AAE is a variety of English that is common among African Americans and often signals a cultural identity in the US (Green, 2002), this dialect-based racial bias causes speech by Black authors to be suppressed more often than non-Black authors (Sap et al.”
Dats Wassup!!: Investigating African-American Vernacular English in Transformer-Based Text Generation (2020, background): “African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a sociolinguistic variety of American English distinct from Standard American English (SAE) with unique syntactic, semantic, and lexical patterns (Green, 2002; Jones, 2015).”
Racial Disparity in Natural Language Processing: A Case Study of Social Media African-American English (2017, background): “…not all speakers of AAE are African-American; nevertheless, speakers of this variety have close ties with specific communities of African-Americans [6]. phenomenon of “BlackTwitter” has been noted anecdotally; indeed, African-American and Hispanic minorities were markedly over-represented in the…”
Exploring the Role of Grammar and Word Choice in Bias Toward African American English (AAE) in Hate Speech Classification (2022, background): “• Preverbal markers commonly vary from Standard English within African influenced dialects of English such as Jamaican Creole and AAE [15].”
Twitter Universal Dependency Parsing for African-American and Mainstream American English (2018, methodology): “Second, we randomly replaced instances of going to with ﬁnna , a prever-bal marker occurring in AAE and in the American South (Green, 2002).”
Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective (2017, background): “For example, the African American screening tool highlights copula deletion, a widely enregistered African American English syntactic feature, in the sentences The cat is in the tree (Standard English) vs.”
Stylistic Variation in Social Media Part-of-Speech Tagging (2018, background): “Second, social networks are strongly correlated with “demographic” author-level variables such as age (Rosenthal and McKeown, 2011), gender (Eckert and McConnellGinet, 2003), race (Green, 2002), and geography (Trudgill, 1974), thanks to the phenomenon of homophily, also known as assortative mixing (”
How to do things with slurs: Studies in the way of derogatory words (2013, background): “…i.e., pitch prominence; (12) a greater likelihood of displaying a variety of final contours in yes/no questions, such as falling or level final contours (Green, 2002), whereas European Americans consistently show a rising final contour (Jun and Foreman, 1996); (13) a statistically significant…”
Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education (2015, unknown): “African American English (AAE) is prominent in these discussions, with generations of scholars documenting and analyzing its structural and social properties (Green, 2002; Labov, 1969; Smitherman, 1977).”
The Effects of Culturally Congruent Educational Technologies on Student Achievement (2013, background): “For example, some (but not all) African American students may come to school speaking a stigmatized, non-standard dialect of English referred to as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) [7], which has a unique phonology, morphology, and syntax that is regularized across users [8; 9].”
Gender identity and lexical variation in social media (2012, background): “This cluster captures features of African-American English: finna is a transcription of fixing to (Rickford and Rickford 2000; Green 2002); the abbreviations lls and lmaoo have been previously shown to be more heavily used in messages from zip codes with high African-American populations…”
Systematic patterning in phonologically‐motivated orthographic variation (2015, background): “Of particular interest from a sociolinguistic perspective are variable spellings that correspond to social or dialectal variation in speech, such as the " dropped g " that connotes informality (Fischer, 1958), or the t,d -deletion that characterizes African-American English (Green, 2002) and a numbe”