Teaching and Learning Guide for: Phonological and Phonetic Characteristics of African American Vernacular English

By E. Thomas. 2010

164 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• Challenges of studying and processing dialects in social media (2015, background): “Backing in /str/ has been reported to be a unique feature in AAVE, as it is unheard in other North American dialects (Rickford, 1999; Labov, 1972a; Thomas, 2007).”
• Coming of age in African American English: A longitudinal study† (2010, background): “In fact, Thomas (2007) suggests that phonetic cues may be stronger than grammatical features in the perceptual identification of AAE speakers.”
• How to do things with slurs: Studies in the way of derogatory words (2013, background): “…Walton and Orlikoff, 1994; Cole et al., 2008); (20) African Americans exhibit a lower degree of nasality than European Americans (Thomas, 2007); and (21) African American men exhibit more ‘‘breathiness’’ and less ‘‘creakiness’’ in their speech than European American men (Thomas and Reaser, 2004).”
• Contextualizing /s/ retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington D.C. African American Language (2021, background): “However, as Thomas (2007) describes, there is a need for more descriptions of consonantal variation in AAL, and there is a noticeable lack of acoustic studies on the topic.”