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African American English Speakers and Their Participation in Local Sound Changes: A Comparative Study
- A special issue of: American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage
- Number: 94
- Special Issue Editor(s): Erik R. Thomas, Malcah Yaeger-Dror
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1. Introduction
THE OLD RURAL SOUTH
2. Vowel Phonology and Ethnicity in North Carolina–Becky Childs, Christine Mallinson, and Jeannine Carpenter
3. Mapping a Dialect "Mixtury": Vowel Phonology of African American and White Men in Rural Southern Louisiana–Michael Wroblewski, Thea Strand, and Sylvie Dubois
THE URBAN SOUTH
4. African American Vernacular English: Vowel Phonology in a Georgia Community–Claire Andres and Rachel Votta
THE URBAN NORTHEAST
5. The Vowel Phonologies of African American and White New York City Residents–Elizabeth L. Coggshall and Kara Becker
6. African American and White Vowel Systems in Pittsburgh–Maeve Eberhardt
THE URBAN MIDWEST
7. Convergence in Blue-Collar Columbus, Ohio, African American and White Vowel Systems?–David Durian, Robin Dodsworth, and Jennifer Schumacher
8. The Vowel Phonology of Urban Southeastern Wisconsin–Thomas C. Purnell
Index
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- Claire Andres
- Kara Becker
- Jeannine Carpenter
- Becky Childs
- Elizabeth L Coggshall
- Robin Dodsworth
- Sylvie Dubois
- David Durian
- Maeve Eberhardt
- Christine Mallinson
- Thomas Purnell
- Jennifer Schumacher
- Thea Strand
- Erik R. Thomas
- Rachel Votta
- Michael Wroblewski
- Malcah Yaeger-Dror
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Description
This volume examines variation in vowel configurations in African American English as spoken by members of seven U.S. communities, including Roanoke Island, North Carolina; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and several parishes in rural Louisiana. The contributors argue that African American English exhibits considerable diversity, disproving the commonly held view that it is a uniform national dialect. Although some features of African American English are universal, others vary by region. In each community, African Americans adopted variants from local vernaculars. The study finds the most assimilation in the oldest communities in the rural South, where multiple races have lived together for centuries.